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Highroad A supreme political fraud to gut Obamacare by Jim Hightower

hile we know that an antigovernment group funded by plutocratic corporate powers is behind the lawsuit intended to terminate Obamacare — who are the four people who’re out front as the actual plaintiffs in the case? The Competitive Enterprise Institute is the corporate front, but it had no standing to sue, so it had to find some actual people who would claim

they’ve been harmed by the health care law. Thus, David King, a 64-year-old Vietnam vet, was recruited to be the lead plaintiff in King v. Burwell, which is now in the Supreme Court’s hands. He and three co-plaintiffs were chosen to put sympathetic human faces on what essentially is a right-wing political ploy. But who are they? An investigative article in Mother Jones magazine by Stephanie Mencimer reveals that King’s modest income as a self-employed limo driver exempts him from Obamacare’s insurance mandate — so he’s been done no harm by the law and, therefore, actually has no standing to sue. Moreover, as a veteran, he’s entitled to VA care and, in a few months, to Medicare, making him double-covered by public health programs. Mr. King’s main reason for being on CEI’s lawsuit appears to be that he loathes Obama. None of the three other recruits seem to have been harmed by

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Obamacare, either. “I don’t know how I got on this case,” says Brenda Levy, adding that, “I don’t like the idea of throwing people off their health insurance.” Then there’s Rose Luck, whose low income also exempts her from the mandates. But she also loathes Obama, calling him “The anti-Christ” who is president only because “he got his Muslim people to vote for him.” If five Supremes use this fraud of a lawsuit to take away the health coverage of as many as 10 million Americans, they’ll not be acting as “justices,” but as rank political hatchetmen. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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militant alliance of unionized workers and environmentalists is emerging out of the first national oil refinery strike since 1980. An Unfair Labor Practices strike began on Feb. 1 after talks broke down between the United Steel Workers (USW) and Royal Dutch Shell, which is the lead industry negotiator. Over 6,800 workers have walked off the job in California, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Washington state, Indiana and Ohio. In a phone interview, USW spokeswoman Lynne Baker Hancock told me that they are striking over fatigue, health and safety, contracting out, dangerously lean staffing levels and inadequate health care benefits. She says Big Oil isn’t bargaining in good faith, adding that the oil industry is “the richest, most powerful and most arrogant industry in the country.” The union is receiving a lot of support from environmentalists including national organizations such as the Sierra Club, Greenpeace USA and Oil Change International. 350.org issued a statement saying, “As we move towards a clean energy economy, there should be no throw-away communities and no throw-away workers. At 350.org we stand with refinery workers and call on oil companies to increase safety standards and begin the transition away from dangerous fossil fuels.” Local grassroots greens are joining the picket lines. There’s “System Change, Not Climate Change,” an ecosocialist network in Los Angeles. There’s the Louisiana Bucket Brigades, an environmental watchdog group which collects air, water and soil samples in communities near refineries and chemical plants. Union-oriented environmental activists in The Labor Network for Sustainability are also calling for solidarity actions. (See http:// www.labor4sustainability.org) Hancock says, “Environmentalists understand that if we can make the refineries safer, it protects the environment and the surrounding communities.” Refineries are among the most dangerous places to work in this country. Workers in the oil and gas industry are more than six times as likely to die on the job as the average American. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported there were 112 fatal injuries in the oil and gas industry in 2011. Over the five-year period from Boulder Weekly

2007 to 2011, the agency notes, there were 529 fatal injuries. Hancock says the union wants protections against forced overtime and fatigue. She says that “people frequently work 12-hour shifts with no days off for more than a week at a time. Sometimes this goes on for several weeks.” Former Texas District Judge Susan Criss, who handled the litigation around a horrifying refinery explosion, defended the union in an op-ed in the Galveston County Daily News. She asked: “Why would a company refuse to guarantee workers the right to a safe workplace? Because the lives and safety of their workers do not matter enough to cut into profits. Because the people that do the work generating those profits do not matter. As a judge, Criss presided over 4,016 legal claims arising from a grisly March 2005 explosion at the BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, that killed 15 workers and injured 180. She notes that investigations into that disaster “revealed a culture of complacency toward worker safety at that refinery contributed to the disaster,” Criss wrote. “Worker fatigue resulting from excessive overtime hours was another problem cited.” On Feb. 18, an explosion at a notyet struck Exxon-Mobil refinery shook Torrance, Cali. Ash (filled with fiberglass and wool) fell on area homes and schools. Four workers were injured. Enraged USW Local 675 members got together with Occupy activists to respond. They dressed in hazmat suits and delivered a dump truck filled with manure to ExxonMobil’s local office. They staged a sit-in and demanded accountability from the company and local police. Local 675 Secretary Treasurer Dave Campbell asked, “Why is it illegal to deposit organic material on corporate property but perfectly legal for a corporation to drop toxic materials on a community?” The union has a big fight on its hands. This is an opportunity for environmentalists to help build an alliance between two social movements favoring the common good over greed. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

Deadhead said he wasn’t sure Trey was the best choice to fill in for Jerry at the Dead reunion shows...and the Phish guy started beating him over the head. There really is such a thing as too much time on your hands.

letters Publisher’s note: After becoming aware of last week’s Stew’s Views column [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5], “Fare Thee Well” promoter Peter Shapiro called me and we chatted for the better part of an hour about the issues raised in the article. I found Shapiro to be sincere in his desire to create a memorable event for those who are able to attend — despite the challenges he has faced, for which he acknowledged, “there are no perfect answers.” The conversation was very friendly and extremely positive — the kind of interaction that upholds the principles of community that “Deadheads” aspire to maintain. According to Shapiro, the percentage of mail order tickets being fulfilled for the event that was reported by Grateful Dead Ticket Sales, and that I, in turn, reported in my column, is not accurate. Grateful Dead Ticket Sales had informed the public that 10 percent of the ticket requests received would be fulfilled; according to Shapiro, the actual percentage is between 16 and 30 percent. Stewart Sallo, Publisher

Short and to the point

From Henceforth, they shall now and forever be known as “The GREEDFUL DEAD!” [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5]. Mr. CJ/via the Internet

Dead on

I recently read the article by Stewart Sallo [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5]. He nailed it. I went to my first Grateful Dead show in 1974 and have seen over 60 shows while Jerry Garcia was alive. Though not as fervent a Deadhead as many, I still consider myself in the family. All things change. Sadly, this last show is going to be marred by greed and corporate interests; a sad legacy for the finest band in the land. Peace. Scott Provost/Seattle, WA

I read your diatribe Stewart, now you can read mine... [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5] Let me preface this by saying I am not a writer. I just write down my thoughts, and right or wrong they are my own and come from the heart. I wrote this yesterday after all of the Blame and Fuck You threads started popping up but decided not to post it — but fuck it. I am sure I will get ravished for various reasons, but this is how I feel about it all, and I just wish the blaming and bitching would stop. We are all better than that. It’s long, and I don’t expect many to read it but here they are: my thoughts. You want somebody to blame? Blame yourself. This is all YOUR fault. Way back in 1965 when Jerry see LETTERS Page 8

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Garcia put this little rock and roll band together he had no earthly idea that 50 years later the music, the “scene” and the phenomenon that he and his friends created would still be alive. There was no way in hell to know that. For the last 50 years YOU have been listening to this music. Almost every single note that has been played up to this point has been seen live, recorded, traded (for free), bought and sold by hundreds of thousands and probably millions of YOU. Together they have played thousands upon thousands of live concerts that YOU went to. YOU followed them around the country and even the world. YOU payed for tickets to their shows and bought their merchandise. YOU listened to their music for countless hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades. YOU made them who they are and it was because of YOU that it has lasted as long as it has. They drove the bus but YOU are the fans who jumped on it. YOU want to talk about the money they have made? It’s their job and just like YOU, they work and have worked their asses off for 50 years almost non stop to keep playing for YOU. Think about that for a second... without YOU this could have all ended long ago. So they had a rough go of it financially for a number of years and now they are cashing in. Do they not deserve to after 50 years of hard work? Just like YOU, of course they do... wouldn’t YOU want to? What will YOU be doing when YOU are in your 60s and 70s? Will YOU still be hard at work or will YOU be thinking about how YOU would like to spend the twighlight years of what life YOU have left? Do YOU think they really need the money? They play music because that’s what they do, and they know people sill enjoy it and will still pay money for them to play it and come and share the music together just like YOU and they have always done. N. Horsman/ via internet

About that GD article

I guess the Boulder Weekly has a very low standard of fact checking to allow the Stewart Sallo article to print [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5]. The guy misinterprets or just downright lies about facts surrounding the event. Maybe he’s just really dumb. I don’t know, but considering this article is gaining your “paper” attention you should consider a retraction. It leads me to believe that the Boulder Weekly is just an independent zine with faux reporters and writers. 8 March 12, 2015

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Dear Stewart, thank you so much for writing this article [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5]. I was one of the people that tried to mail-order. I live in California. And today me and my brother answered an add on Craigslist for three-day passes that I’m pretty sure is scam. How disheartening to witness this unfold. The word that came to my mind after reading your article was ‘fraud.’ It’s not the real deal, It’s a fake thing as you were outlining... I think that it would be a great idea to hold an alternative event, like in California, and make it a big gathering as a tribute to the band, to Jerry Garcia, to the magic and love in all its authenticity. I would love to support something like that. I told my brother today that I’m not even interested in being in Chicago for that event... When I got my ‘rejection’ for mailorder for just two tickets for one of the nights; I thought I would just wait it out, let things unfold, you know? Thought for sure there would be some humanity involved somewhere. Naive to the think the GD company would make themselves known and not allow this ridiculousness? But alas, it’s not about the artists... or the fans... or anything that makes sense for that matter!!! Thanks for receiving the feedback! Karen Gabai/California

Sallo was Dead on

My whole hearted thanks to Stewart Sallo who espoused what I have been telling all my friends around the world about the GD50! He could not be more accurate on every aspect [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5]. When they announced this idiocy, my immediate reaction was, this is a money grab and will be three nights of New Year’s Eve when every idiot in the world comes out to party with nearly all of them are amateurs. Furthur, I knew Shappy could do pay-per-view with ease, if he can put Phil Lesh on pay-per-view with a band of younger players who are still developing reputations, he could persuade broadcasting powers to jump in as the producers must set up video with large screens in the venue for those more than 100 yards from the stage. I was and I am totally comfortable with being in my lovely apartment in SF with good friends dancing up a storm, freely using the

bathroom and drinking beer of my choice without lines to stand in. And now, Shappy may go the close-circuitTV-in-movie-theaters route... this is a bad idea cause movie don’t allow for the party. I saw three folks thrown out of the AMC in downtown SF during the GD meet up at the movies last year and forcing us into sterile environments like that is plainly ignorant of the audience. What makes this all worse, the others who are now cashing in like Don Was. I appreciate his tribute concert program, I have seen several and recorded several. His Jerry Tribute in May at Merriweather Post is not a celebration of the music of Jerry, it is the cashing in on the GD50 momentum and that purely sickens me as a Deadhead since 1981 as well as a professional Deadhead who has been selling officially licensed merchandise for 11 years. Another sickening cash in is all the tribute bands to the GD, in ’96 there were two. DSO and JGB. Today, everywhere you turn another one has sprung up eager to draw crowds, make money and claim they are paying tribute. Throw that in with the many festivals that are using the GD tribute theme to attract concert goers and now you have a whole GD industry based on money not the music. Yikes, time to hit the bathroom and puke. The reality is stone cold — avidly practicing Deadheads are a rare breed today and most of them will not, could not, would not be in Chicago. At the GD Conference in December at San Jose State, Steve Marcus, founder of the GD ticket service, said clearly at the end of his presentation: Jerry Garcia never wanted the GD to be a corporate brand. It was about music and people and higher consciousness. Later that day, Mark Pincus, who oversees all GD things at Rhino blatantly told those in attendance: We are branding the Grateful Dead in every way we can. What has happened in the days since Jerry’s moral compass left us: money matters, the mainstream music industry has moved in, the soul of the band members met the devil and, like Robert Johnson, sold what they had and it is no longer about the music or people. It simply wants to make me cry, they have forsaken our spirit, and for many, our religion. Thanks for articulating the reality so perfectly Stewart... John Bergan ( JB) Peace Dog, Sundog/Not Fade Away/via internet

Remember Jerry

Well said [Re: “Ladies and gentle-

men, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5]. This whole thing has alienated the Dead and its family, not brought them all together. I couldn’t care less about what they play. I remember Jerry. They obviously do not. Concert Joe/New York City

Dead left me in limbo

Agree that the ’70s were the best concerts [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5]. To this day I am one of the unfortunate “in limbo” fans who sent in $862.00, did a drawing of the girl from Live Dead and two dancing bears, which took me two hours, and I have not received to date my mail order refund or an email. I have written.GDTS 3 emails and no response! So daily I now go on Philzone, Jambands Relix for connection. You are an excellent writer — right to the heart of this clusterf-k topic! Randi Seligman/via internet

We get it, you couldn’t get tickets

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to see tickets going for huge prices. I also think the swipe at selecting Trey Anastasio as a guest guitar player is unwarranted. Yes, I am a Phish fan. I think any of the guitar players listed in the article would have been a great selection, but Trey did play with Further last year at the Lockn Festival and has played with Phil and friends numerous times, so I don’t see that as an attempt to add to the fan base. I’m sure Trey was the guitar player that the remaining members of the Grateful Dead wanted to play with. You also mentioned the fact that the shows will be broadcasted or streamed on the Internet for purchase. I’m happy about that, and I’m sure many others are, too. I have streamed Phish concerts and have always enjoyed the experience and don’t believe that the price typically charged for streaming shows is unreasonable. As someone who had no intention of going to the shows but would love to see them, I am looking forward to the chance to view them from the comfort of my home. To me this article just seemed like a bunch of unwarranted complaints from someone who either couldn’t get tickets and wants to vent or didn’t have anything to write about this week or maybe both. Cheer up, Stewart, and watch it from home. You can have some friends over, split the price and have a few beers. The beers will be cheaper, too. Evan Turner/Boulder

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Shall we talk about why the Grateful Dead toured for so many years [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5]? Shall we talk about why the Grateful Dead had to play stadium shows? Shall we talk about the relatively small amount of secondary tickets available in comparison to the 60,000 capacity for each night? In reality, debt and drug addiction, fueled the machine that was the Grateful Dead throughout the ’80s and ’90s. This is all very well documented. To add to it, regarding the Fare Thee Well shows, there are very, very few secondary tickets available in comparison to most major concert events. The percentage is miniscule, less than 5 percent. So your theory about promoters and such hoping to sell tickets on the secondary market is blasphemous at best. This article is nothing more than a biased, misinformed representation of one author who clearly does not understand how the music industry (nor how

StubHub or eBay) works, reducing himself to finger pointing, grasping only at the negative, as if there is some sort of massive conspiracy behind the whole thing. The numbers regarding mail order are skewed, as is your “interpretation”. About the only thing you got right is this: It’s not the Grateful Dead, this much is true. It’s a 50th Anniversary Celebration. Sorry that you were hoping this would be the same event as Winterland in ’77. Clearly you are still living in that moment, and your disdain for Trey wipes clean any credibility regarding logical guitar choices. No mention of Bruce to support your tin foil theory? I guess you have never heard of DEMAND. I guess you failed to consider that more people (hundreds of thousands) wish to attend than the stadium can hold. I guess you do not understand simple things, like the size of the GDTS staff, how to manage stadium shows, ticket sales, etc. I guess because this event does not align with what YOU think the Grateful Dead is/ was about, your disdain clouds your reality, to the point where all you can see is a cash grab. As old as you are, you probably should know better, although its fairly evident you choose not to. Lastly, sorry you missed out on tickets. Truly, the only “colossal rip off ” you speak of appears to be you misleading the public with biased and sensationalized theories. I saw the Grateful Dead, and I’ll be going to these shows, along with hundreds of my friends lucky enough to get tickets (whether through mail order or TM onsale). All in honor, and spirit, of the Grateful Dead. Andy Blanton

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Thank you! Your article [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” March 5], just summed up, in perfect prose-like terminology, the bitterness I felt after receiving my mail-order rejection notice last week. Despite high hopes my order would be filled, I was the guy queued at spot 499,999 on Ticketmaster day attempting to ensure my attendance at this final act would be certain. We all know how that turned out. I now imagine a 21st century Wall of Sound in Chicago adorned with hundreds of corporate sponsorships and tidy logos, giving the finest album art of yesteryears a real run for the money! Older and now bitter. Chris Huber/San Diego,Calif. Boulder Weekly

NEW HERD OF BISON WILL GRAZE COLORADO’S PLAINS A dozen purebred American bison will begin grazing the hillsides near the Rocky Mountains this fall. Colorado State University has finalized an agreement with the required government agencies to release bison on 800 acres of the City of Fort Collins-owned Soapstone Prairie Natural Area and adjacent Larimer County-owned Red Mountain Open Space on Nov. 1. The bison released into this corner of northern Colorado will come from a seed herd of genetically pure bison. The area was historically home to bison Kerri McDermid before they were hunted to near extinction. Cattle and bison were interbred for decades after efforts to restore the species Purebred bison calves were born at CSU in spring 2014 are bound for open space undertaken, on Nov. 1. and as a result, cattle genes are almost always present in bison. The animals that will comprise the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd have been quarantined for more than a decade, tested for bovine brucellosis, which affects bison, cattle and elk and can cause spontaneous abortions. Assisted reproductive technologies developed at CSU will guarantee the bison are not carrying infectious disease, thereby reducing some of the potential conflicts with ranchers concerned with infection. “I started with this project really excited by the science, the idea that we could use the bovine reproduction system in a different way,” Jennifer Barfield, the reintroduction project’s scientific leader, with Colorado State’s Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology Laboratory, said in a press release. “But I’ve developed this passion for the bison. … They’re so culturally important. The heritage they carry with them has been the extra motivation to make this work.” The bison are currently housed at CSU.

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he state bill that would have models of bills from ALEC. according to the American Wind Energy rolled back Colorado’s In October 2012, ALEC’s Board of Association’s report on the wind industry renewable energy standards State Legislators approved model text market published on Jan. 28. In 2014, the to half of their proposed lev- for the Electricity Freedom Act, which state added 261 megawatts of wind els was co-sponsored by legstates it “repeals the State of {insert power with the construction of Xcel islators who have been linked to the fos- states}’s requirement that electric distriEnergy’s 200-megawatt project near sil fuel-funded American Legislative bution utilities and electric service comLimon in the eastern plains and Platte Exchange Council. panies provide [blank] percent of their River Power Authority’s 60-megawatt The American Legislative Exchange electricity supplies from renewable ener- Spring Canyon Expansion near the Council (ALEC) describes itself as “the gy sources by [blank].” Their argument state’s northeastern border. nation’s largest nonpartisan, voluntary was that these renewable energy manNineteen percent of Xcel Energy’s membership organization of state legisdates decrease American competitivepower in 2013 was from renewables and lators. 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The letter, “In Colorado specifically, I think which disputes trying to repeal the renewable portSchmidt’s statement folio standard would be dead on that the organizaarrival, and so these ALEC memtion denies climate bers are trying to at least roll back change, states that the renewable energy standard as its objection is not much as they can,” Elsner says. with the science of Nearly 174,000 U.S. workers climate change but are employed in the solar industry, according to The Solar Foundation, with the use of government mandates, a 20 percent increase over 2014 subsidies and clitotals. Nationwide, there are more Colorado runs on 15 percent renewable power likely because of the renewable energy standard. mate regulations. than 12,700 megawatts of wind energy currently under construc“To ALEC, nothing tion, according to the American is more anathema Wind Energy Association. than the government picking winners “What we saw in response is that The price of a solar panel has and losers,” the letter to Schmidt reads. ALEC actually adopted additional dropped more than 60 percent and the That letter was signed by Colorado model legislation, so there were two price of wind power by more than 50 Senators Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling), additional bills adopted in late 2013 that percent over the past four years, the Kent Lambert (R-Colorado Springs) would basically water down [renewable Energy and Policy Institute states, but and Bill Cadman (R-Colorado Springs), portfolio standards] by including existing despite those numbers, the attack on who co-sponsored the bill to reduce hydro sources,” says Gabe Elsner with clean energy and its costs has continued. Colorado’s renewable energy standards. the Energy and Policy Institute. “ALEC ALEC’s Energy, Environment and Cadman is one of Colorado’s state chairs members understand that politics in Agriculture Task Force includes memfor the organization. He’s also the their states differ, but what they do have bers from major fossil fuel companies Colorado Senate president. in common is that they’ve sat in a room like Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries, That bill, Senate Bill 15-044, prowith a bunch of fossil fuel interests that Duke Energy and Peabody Energy. It posed to reduce the state’s renewable want to see these [renewable portfolio has approved model bill language to energy standard as required by the public standards] policies repealed.” utilities commission, set at 20 percent Colorado’s renewable energy standard repeal or weaken renewable energy standards, according to the Energy and from 2015 to 2019 and 30 percent from has led to an electricity mix in the state Policy Institute. 2020 and after for investor-owned utilithat went from 0.6 percent non-hydroLibertarian think tank and climate ties and 20 percent for cooperative electric power renewables to 15 percent in 2013, change skeptic organization The associations, to 15 percent indefinitely. It according to The Union of Concerned Heartland Institute joined with ALEC passed the senate on Feb. 5 and died in Scientists. 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s a bow and arrow a firearm? Yes, area, including stray arrows coming according to the Boulder County near homes and wounded animals Commissioners, but only on dying on doorsteps. Sugarloaf Mountain. “Bow hunters, according to what The commissioners voted I’ve researched and what I’ve been told unanimously on Monday, March 9, to by my friends who are bow hunters, adopt a resolution that will ban the use often miss their marks,” said Sugarloaf of bows and arrows in a small commuresident Marcia Barber at the meeting. nity up on Sugarloaf Mountain. The “We have found many, many arrows resolution “clarifies” a 1980 resolution around our home and on our private that established a firearms discharge property. They’re like razor blades.” district in the area that prohibited the “The concern is that these are prouse of firearms in the 4-and-a-halfjectiles; these are dangerous,” said Alex square-mile area of Barber, a Sugarloaf private and public resident, at the land in the area. meeting. “Other However, it was people have found THE unclear in 1980 if arrows. One of the REAL ISSUE HERE ... IS the county had the arrows I think was ability to enforce found within 25 THAT SOME RESIDENTS yards of a child’s firearm restrictions DO NOT WANT TO SEE OR swing in their on federal land. In BE EXPOSED TO HUNTING backyard.” 2011, as chronicled Susan Marath in Boulder Weekly, NEAR WHERE THEY LIVE” Horner, an attortwo Sugarloaf resi— KRISTIN CANNON, ney for the residents convinced the dents, said the county to start DISTRICT WILDLIFE issue should be enforcing the fireMANAGER, COLORADO seen not as a perarms ban, but bow sonal battle hunters were still PARKS AND WILDLIFE between two allowed into the groups, but a land to hunt. broader issue of That’s because “health and safety.” there was ambiguity “If you’re not a hunter and a large, concerning the definition of a beautiful animal has died on your land, firearm. The original statute defines it’s a very upsetting thing,” she said at a firearm as “any pistol, revolver, rifle or the meeting. “It’s not about hunters other weapon of any description from which any shot, projectile or bullet may versus non hunters in the broader sense. It really is about a very small area that be discharged.” has unusual problems due to the interDoes that mean a bow as a “weapspersing of private property and public on” and an arrow is a “projectile”? When an arrow is shot from a bow, is it property. It’s an usual configuration up “discharged”? The county commissionthere.” ers say yes. It’s unclear, residents say, because In response to concerns from several not all property owners mark boundarspeakers at the hearing, Commissioner ies where public and private land is Elise Jones said the ruling will not set a delineated. But Kristin Cannon, district precedent that a bow and arrow is a wildlife manager for Colorado Parks firearm, adding that it’s a “relatively and Wildlife, says those in the small issue,” that pertains explicitly to Sugarloaf community who brought this the discharge district on Sugarloaf. Be issue to the commissioners are not that as it may, the ruling does have farlooking at the broader context. ther-reaching effects, according to testi“I feel that the real issue here, espemony from a state wildlife official, resi- cially when it comes to archery hunters, dents and hunters. is that some residents do not want to The first issue is why there was such see or be exposed to hunting near a fuss to combat bow hunting in the where they live,” Cannon said at the area to begin with. Residents say there meeting. “There is no evidence to sugwere safety and quality of life issues gest that hunting in the area threatens caused directly by bow hunting in the human safety. There are those that dis-

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agree with that conclusion, but I contend that their point of reference is that hunting is inherently dangerous and that is despite national data to the contrary. In fact, statistics suggest hunting is one of the safest outdoor pursuits.” Harris Glow, a Sugarloaf resident for 40 years and a veteran Sugarloaf firefighter, said deer have actually proven to be more dangerous than hunters in the area. “I recently retired from the fire department after 30 years of service,” Harris said at the meeting. “I have never responded to an incident involving a bow and arrow, or anybody hurt with an arrow. I have responded to a lot of accidents of people hitting deer, people on bikes hitting deer and getting hurt. I’ve also had deer die in my yard almost every year, but they were hit by cars, not by bow and arrows, so maybe we ought to amend this thing to do away with cars as well.” Cannon says the majority of the deer population lives at the elevation of the housing divisions on Sugarloaf Mountain. Controlling that population is important to prevent the accidents Harris mentioned, but also to promote the health of the deer herd, she says. Though state officials will still be able to discharge weapons in the area, hunting from citizens has long been a way the state has controlled deer populations. Cannon also said she’s worried the area will be expanded, which will further make it difficult to manage wildlife. “I would rather see these deer utilized for food than causing car accidents or suffering and ultimately dying of chronic wasting disease, other disease or starvation,” Cannon said. “We can still manage deer without the relatively small area designated by 80-52 [the Sugarloaf region], but the expansion of 80-52 to other areas in Boulder County will be detrimental to our ability to manage wildlife, and that there is every reason to expect that these requests will be coming next. “By making what seems like a simple clarification, I worry you are setting a precedent that any Boulder County resident with enough time and money may shut down any activity they do not approve of or agree with on public land.” To that end, Sugarloaf resident Anita Moss said when she initially filed

a petition with 87 signatures on it a little over two years ago (and for which the hearing on Monday was the result), the petition asked for the Sugarloaf region to be expanded. Moss added that she still plans on bringing the expansion of the discharge district before the commissioners. The increased development of Boulder County has made it ever harder to control deer populations, Cannon said, and to hunt on public land, said Tim Brass, a local hunter. “These big game animals are not pets, they’re wildlife,” Brass said at the meeting. “While I understand these folks’ desire to live near them, as there becomes more and more development in Boulder County and elsewhere, we’re getting pinched with development.” What’s clear is that it is an immensely personal issue. Many homeowners don’t like the safety risk caused by wayward arrows and animals dying in their yards; hunters and wildlife control staff say their actions are as safe as possible, and they want access to public land. The conflict has caused many a kerfuffle. Every person who has bow hunted in the area who spoke at the meeting spoke of harassment from Sugarloaf residents who didn’t want them accessing the public land to hunt. “I too have been harassed up there,” said Louisville resident and hunter Mike Etchery at the meeting. “I’ve been up there just walking around, and I’ve been … followed, videoed, photographed, license plate written down, honked at. I think that’s infringing upon my rights.” The commissioners, before voting to pass the bow ban, admonished those who antagonized hunters, and made it clear they did not want to ban hunting. “Our intention is not to eliminate hunting in Boulder County,” said Commissioner Deb Gardner. “We’re certainly not in favor of that. We’re not talking about anything in any other area besides 80-52 [Sugarloaf ], where our intention is to minimize the conflict that is happening in that area.” Commissioner Cindy Domenico “reluctantly” seconded the motion, saying she is a target bow hunter herself, and the resolution is just meant “to clarify what the intent was at the time that [the original] resolution came forward,” in 1980. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com March 12, 2015 17

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wen Goodwin was just shy women’s restroom on this floor or any of 53 when she decided it floor she happens to be on. If you have was time to come out of a problem with her in the women’s the closet — born in a room, then there are other women’s man’s body, she says she rooms — use them. It’s not her probcould no longer live “the half and half lem, it’s yours.’” life.” But not everyone at work was so So she went to her boss at the accepting. Colorado Department of Human “Some of the women — and I Services, expecting to be told to pack couldn’t understand — were just so up and leave, but instead her confession upset from 2005 when I came out, to was received with compas- Winter Shadows/ Wikimedia Commons/ The Sand Painter sion. “She hooked me up with the right people, and we got a nice plan together,” says Goodwin, who’s seated at the kitchen table of her mobile home in north Boulder. She’s tall, every inch of 6 feet, and her ashen hair nearly reaches her elbows when it falls across her broad shoulders. Despite her size, there’s nothing intimidating about Goodwin — her voice is soft, with just the slightest southern nuance, a holdover from her years growing up in Arkansas. She’s dressed in earth tones, her feet clad in white socks. To her right is her partner Marie Sutherland, who points out a hole in one of Goodwin’s socks (“You should only wear those on Sunday,” Sutherland cracks). In stark contrast, Sutherland is small in stature, 5 feet 7 inches at the most, with auburn hair that falls just above her shoulders, which are covered by a bright red cardigan. 2007 when I decided, OK, I’ve had it, While Goodwin is quiet, Sutherland is [and left my job],” Goodwin says. “I effusive, though both are immediately could not get those women to acknowland equally personable. edge I existed. I would see them in the “They gave me a week off before halls and say, ‘Hi, how are you?’ And my birthday — I had decided I was they would say nothing. I was just… ” going to come out on my birthday,” Goodwin says, sighing and shrugging Goodwin says. “I did all the paperwork her shoulders. and everything and while I was doing “Invisible,” Sutherland finishes. that they scheduled a meeting with “Invisible,” Goodwin repeats. everybody [in my project] … and [my By 2007, Goodwin’s boss retired, boss] said, ‘Her name is Gwen. You will ushering in a new administration that refer to her as that. She will use the left Goodwin so marginalized at work Boulder Weekly

— literally stuck in a corner desk and given no actual work to speak of — that she left her job. Today at 63 years old, both Goodwin and Sutherland have lived the majority of their adult lives hiding their sexual and gender identities. Both women are transgender. Their stories are not unlike those of other LGBTQ seniors who lived for years — for decades — hiding their identities, lying to their families and friends and colleagues — even to themselves. Some of them are still hiding, unsure of how society will accept them, scarred by a lifetime of being told that any thoughts or desires that lay outside the gender and sexual binary were a sign of mental illness. Now, as senior citizens, this subgroup of the LGBTQ community faces a unique set of issues as they seek healthcare providers, housing or even just a social community that will be open, safe and affirming of their sexual and gender identity. In many ways, they are an invisible community. The Boulder County Area Agency on Aging works to shine light on the needs of the elder LGBTQ community through Project Visibility. The project started back in 2004 when a lesbian in the office — after three years of focus groups with LGBTQ elders — recognized a need to train service providers about how to communicate with and better serve this community with respect. “We were building [the program] from scratch,” says Nancy Grimes, LGBT program specialist at the Boulder County Area Agency on Aging. “There was almost no research on [LGBTQ] elders at that time because seniors were not considered a

population that people want to bother with too much.” But the focus groups had shown that many LGBTQ elders felt afraid to tell doctors or other professionals about their sexual or gender identity — they feared rejection or even hostility. The Boulder County AAA created training materials for administrators and staff of nursing homes, assisted living residences, home care agencies and other senior service providers, as well as the friends and families of LGBTQ elders. Grimes says the materials, a 21-minute film and a manual, have been sold in 30 states in the United States, mostly to other Area Agencies on Aging, the hope being that these agencies train staff in their senior care providing community. “As far as we know, there’s only one other [Area Agency on Aging] in the country that even has an LGBT programs specialist and that was only a couple years ago that that position was added,” Grimes says. In the world of aging services programing, service providers include people who run congregate living homes, like a nursing home, assisted living or independent living residence. They might be someone who provides home health care, like a hospice nurse. They might be someone who runs a hearing center or provides meals for shut-ins. Even funeral directors, lawyers, estate planners and dentists work with LGBTQ elders and, according to Grimes, can benefit from training in how to better serve so-called rainbow elders. A lot of the training involves creating a sense of inclusion by broadening terminology or excluding unnecessary questions. “What we would say to that dentist is that the intake form should not say Mr. or Mrs. It shouldn’t say married or single, widowed or divorced.” Grimes says. “It shouldn’t even say male or female if you’re really going to push the edges. Why do you need to know those things? It shouldn’t say who is your husband or wife? It should say, ‘What is your name?’ and, ‘Who is your emergency contact and what is that person’s See SHADOWS Page 22

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relationship to you?’ Those are the kinds of questions we think are inclusive questions and all doctors, all dentists, all senior living homes could go with that. Except some need to know who is the legal judiciary, that could be another question, but it doesn’t have to be couched in the terms of marital status or gender.” At 61, Grimes has lived in Boulder for 40 years, 35 of which she has lived openly as a lesbian. She has been married to her wife for 23 years. She says that while she’s an older LGBTQ adult, she’s certainly on the young side of older, making her experiences quite different than those of LGBTQ folks in their 70s or 80s. “The senior care providers are serving two generations of LGBT people. They are serving the baby boomers like me and then they are serving the older adults, who I’ll just say are pre-Stonewall [riots], so [coming of age] pre1969,” Grimes says, referring to the violent protests against a police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. The riots are considered by many to be the keystone event in the LGBTQrights movement in the U.S. “Their experience is totally different than mine. I mean, they couldn’t serve in the military openly, they couldn’t teach school openly, they couldn’t go to their church openly, and there weren’t any alternatives. And of course they couldn’t marry. You can’t even bury your partner without the right piece of paper, and then of course the family comes in and they take the house and they take all the stuff and you’re stuck as the surviving spouse, but you have no spousal protections. That’s all different now if you’re married and if you’re out.”

Gwen Goodwin and Marie Sutherland where right on the cusp of that Stonewall era, both turning 18 in 1970 — and furthermore suffering from body dysmorphia. Being gay was one thing, but telling people you were the “wrong” gender was something else entirely. “There was no way you could come out,” Sutherland says. “I used to argue and tell people that I was a girl. If you came out we were told, at least I was told that if I came out, that the men in the white coats would come and put me in a straightjacket and take me to the mental hospital, strap me to the table and give me electric shock therapy. And that I better keep my mouth shut or that was gonna happen to me. And if I still didn’t come around, they would take out the front part of my brain. I was 8, 9, 10 years old and I heard this stuff.” Sutherland says she eventually learned to stop arguing, and because she was attracted to women, that made it some easier to play the part of a man. While her first marriage failed quickly, her second marriage was a dream come true, and Sutherland was able to tell her second wife about her gender dysphoria. The two were married for 33 years, raising three children and spoiling 12 grandchildren. While Sutherland lived as a man through those 33 years, her wife helped her explore the woman trapped inside. “Sharon was the person who knew the most about me and over the years she helped me explore who I was and what I was,” Sutherland says. “It was a wonderful relationship. God blessed me by bringing me and Sharon together.” But when Sharon was diagnosed Boulder Weekly

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with inoperable cancer in late 2004, Sutherland knew her days of hiding were numbered. “[A couple weeks before she died, Sharon] kissed my forehead and said, ‘I’m not going to be here to help you hide anymore and hiding’s not the answer anyway and you need to be that person — not part time, not in a closet, but full time,’” Sutherland says. “‘Marie has to live.’” In early 2005, just months after Sharon’s death, Sutherland began seeing a counselor who dealt with gender identity. The councelor suggested that Sutherland go to the Gender Identity Center in Denver. “I was afraid just going into the building that someone would see me and the next day in the paper there’d be a picture of me with ‘weirdo, crazy, a faggot’ printed underneath,” Sutherland says. “I was sure something like that would happen. I walked in scared.” Instead, she found acceptance — and Goodwin. It took a few years before the two became an item, but their friendship was a life raft in the storm that ravaged both their lives over those years. In 2007, Goodwin would leave her job with the state after two years of blatant discrimination. Sutherland also lost work as she made her transition. “After Sharon died, the income went,” Sutherland says. “I also owned my own company, Maintenance Service Company. When it went from being Maintenance Service Company to Marie’s Maintenance Service Company, a third of my customers were lost. One of them even told me I was going to hell. Another one said, ‘I accept you as a human being, but I don’t approve of the gay lifestyle so I won’t be calling you again.’” Both Sutherland and Goodwin dealt with health problems — Goodwin losing all of her large intestine to Crohn’s disease, and Sutherland suffering from severe heart problems that led to a massive heart attack in 2011. They were running out of money quickly, and searching desperately for a place to live. Both express that thoughts of suicide were common during this time. “We were going to go until the money runs out and then teach the car to fly,” Sutherand says. “I know some places out west of Las Vegas in the Red Rock Canyon area and it would be real easy to take any car about 60, 65, 70 miles per hour and make a hard right hand turn and the car would go… PFFT, ” Sutherland glides a flattened Boulder Weekly

hand across her other hand and sends it nose-diving toward the ground. “And it’s about 15-1,600 feet down and it’s straight enough that you’re not going to bounce. You might enjoy the view on the way down, but you’re not going to survive.” Then help came in the form of an anonymous donation from their church — $5,000 helped the two purchase their mobile home in Boulder. Things aren’t easy, they say, but they’ve got each other — and finally, after more than 50 years of hiding, they have themselves. They’ve lived in their home together for five years now, each contributing to the education of the LGBTQ community through Speak Outs organized by Out Boulder and in other events like Trans Awareness Week. “The two of us at our age have gotten great response,” Sutherland says. “However, over the last couple of years the response has cooled a bit. Now, I don’t know if that’s because we got older or if the attitude of the young ones is changing, but even those who are beginning to identify as different than straight, wherever it is they’re saying they are — and there’s a whole wide range they could be — we get a lot of blank stares from them. They find it difficult to relate.” Grimes agrees that the younger LGBTQ community is disconnected from the elders. “I think it would be nice to have more intergenerational time with the elder LGBT community,” Grimes says. “Sometimes young people go, ‘I didn’t know there were old gay people.’ But they don’t see them because their community is youth and the elders aren’t out in an organized way.’ But the Boulder County Area Agency on Aging continues to help LGBTQ older adults find help, strength and social opportunities in a world obsessed with youth and blinded by ageism. Things might not be perfect for Sutherland and Goodwin, but they’ve found a home with each other, a home in Boulder and mental space to become the women they are after years of repression. “God blessed me twice,” Sutherland says. “I don’t know how it is that I ended up partnered with her but I was so wonderfully blessed two times because this is a genuinely good person.” “You’re not too bad yourself,” Goodwin says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hat do gender equality “Research clearly shows that women and the environmental throughout the world are particularly crisis have in common? vulnerable to the threats posed by cli“Everything,” accord- mate change,” she says. “In some disasing to Terry Odendahl, ters, women and children have been 14 executive director of Global Greengrants times more likely to die [than men].” Fund, a Boulder-based environmental fund Organizations around the world are that supports grasstaking notice of Courtesy of Global Greengrants roots action on a these trends. During global scale. the Geneva Climate On March 8, Change Conference International in February, many Women’s Day, nations acknowlOdendahl was recedged the imporognized for her tance of ensuring leadership in gender equality and advancing the rights human rights in a of women working new global climate toward environmenagreement. “All Parties shall tal justice — both be guided by gender locally and internaequality and ensure tionally — at a lunthe full and equal cheon hosted by Terry Odendahl says she believes participation of WorldDenver. women will save the planet — if they are Odendahl has included in the decision-making process. women in all climate actions and decision been at the helm of making processes,” wrote the European Global Greengrants Fund for the past Union in their proposal. six years. She previously served as the Likewise, Global Greengrants operexecutive director of two women’s funds and has a diverse background in ates on the premise that women have anthropology, philanthropy and gender effective solutions to the climate crisis studies. that are being overlooked. In 2009, Because of traditional gender roles about 23 percent of the projects supin developing nations, women’s lives ported by the fund were led by or cannot be separated from nature, makfocused on women. ing them unduly affected by environ“I didn’t think that was a good statismental degradation. In times of tic,” Odendahl said during her accepdrought, they must walk further to coltance speech on March 8. “Now I can lect water and are forced to work harder report that 37 percent of all our grants go when crops are destroyed in the event to women-led and women-focused projof natural disasters. ects. And my pledge to you is that half or

more than half of our funding will go toward those projects in the future.” While almost 300 billion dollars are allocated annually to curb climate change worldwide, the majority of the funding goes toward governments and large corporations with very little trickling down to the level of the communities that are affected. “We believe positive social change comes from the ground up,” Odendahl says. “It is more likely to be lasting when called for by community leaders.” One of the community leaders Odendahl is referring to is Aleta Baun — or “Mama Aleta” as she’s known, an indigenous Mollo woman from Indonesia and recipient of the 2013 Goldman Environmental Award, the largest award in the world for grassroots environmentalists. Mama Aleta organized a peaceful protest against the encroachment of mining companies in her region. For over a year, more than 100 women blocked access to the mine site by quietly weaving their traditional cloth as part of their Gandhi-style defiance of the miners. “But when we began our protest, women realized that they could do more — take a stand and be heard,” Baun told the Jakarta Post in 2013. “Women are also the recognized landowners in the Mollo culture, and this reawakened in those women who hadn’t been actively speaking out a desire to protect their land.” The Mollo women were successful, and by 2010 the companies abandoned their operations and halted mining at all four sites within the Mollo territories.

“We have found hundreds of other projects like this that are very effective and that need to be funded,” Odendahl says. That’s the value of a group such as the Global Greengrants Fund, Odendahl adds, because they have trusted advisers around the world who are able find these grassroots activists. “There’s almost no way that the average citizen — who isn’t traveling and visiting these groups — could do that on their own,” she says. “That’s a service that we offer to our donors.” Global Greengrants also released Climate Justice and Women’s Rights, a guide on how to direct more resources to grassroots women activists. The guide features practical lessons and case studies from the Summit on Women and Climate, held in August 2014 in Bali, Indonesia where leaders and activists from 37 countries aimed to increase collaborations between environmental and women’s rights movements. “The guide is to try to influence other funders that are bigger than us to do the same, to see the interconnections,” Odendahl says. Having more women involved in the decision-making process can help protect, restore and transform the planet, Odendahl says, but they can’t do it alone. “I honestly believe that women are going to save the planet, but we’re only going to be able to do it in conjunction with men,” she says. “So everyone is going to have to come together to make this happen, and I look forward to being part of the solution.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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s Jason Haas clears off a tabletop littered with fake fruits and vegetables, piling them into a plastic shopping cart that barely reaches his knees to the sounds of his giggling son shuffling across the kitchen, the mountaintop solitude that defined his life 15 years ago seems far off. Now a full-time math teacher with a wife and two kids and owner of climbing guidebook publisher Fixed Pin Publishing, Haas is juggling his priorities. Anchored to the delicate balance between the responsibilities of a husband and father and the call of the mountains, Haas has started planning ways to find the adventure and introspection climbing offers him a little closer to home, and he’s setting out to help others do the same. After graduating from Michigan State University in 2003, Haas says, he had a degree, but no idea what to do with it. Tired of the routes in Red River Gorge he and friend Brian Young had cemented into memory, the two decided to do something different, bigger. The two decided to venture far from the scruffy, chossy sandstone that lined the faces he first top-roped while in college, to Mount Kenya. More than 10 years later, that experience is still shaping Haas’ approach to climbing and the stewardship that goes along with it. Following what “may have been a coin flip” to decide whether to head to Thailand or to Africa, Haas says, he and Young packed their bags for the 17,000foot Mount Kenya. They had both been climbing for around two years, working their way through the grades together, but had minimal gear and little experience outside of the 70-foot sandstone cliffs they’d sharpened their teeth on. “It was a lot of fun in a lot of ways, very character building, [but] it was a trip that we were fortunate to come back from,” Haas says. “There were just a lot of things that were stacked up against us that we were too naïve to realize. The weather wasn’t good [but] we still went up. We couldn’t see anything. I mean, we were in a cloud all day, [but] we still kept going up. We weren’t on a route, at all. Maybe we were doing a first ascent — maybe we were following someone else — we don’t know. Clearly we weren’t in any guidebook description. We were just

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going up, higher and higher, and we just didn’t have the skills. It kept raining and snowing and we just kept going up.” Shivering through his down jacket and Gore-Tex coats, they topped out at a spire, Haas says, but thick cloud cover prevented them from seeing how much rock was left to go. With an inadequate rack, they started the eight- to 10-hour descent. Neither of them was familiar with multi-pitch routes, and having knotted two different-sized ropes together, Haas watched the knots come undone while Young was rappelling. He reached out and grabbed both ends of the rope as they came apart at the anchor. Young had un-weighted the ropes just before the knots came untied by stemming in a corner, giving Haas the precious seconds necessary to save him from falling and re-tie the ropes. “I think it really reveals what kind of person you are, and what kind of person you want to be,” Haas says. “When you’re in danger and you might get seriously hurt, or die, you get to really see a side of yourself that I have a hard time seeing otherwise. And I’m not saying that I need to put my life in danger all the time, but you need to go beyond comfortable.” After three double-rope rappels, they had to cut their ropes when they got caught in a roof crack, leaving them with only 60 feet to work with, forcing them to free solo deeper into the seemingly endless cloud that held tightly around the mountain. Haas stumbled on a piton he easily removed from the face that would later become the inspiration for his business, Fixed Pin Publishing. The clouds began to part, revealing a ledge that, if they could reach it, would be the key to them getting down to the glacier and off the mountain safely. Tying together what little rope they had left, they spread the rope through a new anchor they’d made, and Young began rappelling down. Haas says the rope was cracking and popping, and after quickly losing Young in the clouds, all he could hear was Young swearing, the rope moaning and screaming before a “thud.” “So I’m freaking out,” Haas says. “And then he just goes, ‘It’s fine, come on down.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, God, it’s my turn.’ So the rope is maybe 10-feet shy of a ledge, a really good ledge, so you’ve got to drop on to this ledge. The problem is that the rope is dangling at the edge of the ledge, so if you miss, you’re going [down] the rest of the way to the glacier.” In order to land on the ledge, Haas had to swing the rope and drop. Luckily, Young slammed Haas into the wall as he reached the ledge, allowing them to

scramble down to the glacier. “We’re still friends, but I don’t think we’ve really talked about that trip since,” Haas says. “I was very much outside of my comfort zone, and I didn’t want that again, but I wanted to still be outside of that comfort zone. I think we didn’t talk about it because in a lot of ways, in my eyes, it was a defining moment. It was what we were looking for, what’s the kind of person we’re going to be? How am I going to move Jon Glassberg, Louder

Jason Haas holds a pile of rusted bolts following a rebolt funded by the Access Fund, a not-for-profit rock climbing advocacy group.

forward in the world? And I thought that trip really did that, for both of us.” Spending only a few days in Michigan after returning from the month-long stint in Africa, Haas says, he and Young set off on a nine-month road trip across the U.S., climbing every chance they got. Mount Kenya may have shown him that there were skills he needed to develop, Haas says, but it also helped him realize that he needed to mature on, and off, the mountain. “It’s just you and your partner and you’re alone for a month, near nobody else you know and typically

near no other humans anyway,” Haas says. “And you just have an honest conversation with yourself about, ‘Why am I here?’ There’s no glory in it. What am I hoping to learn? What am I hoping to achieve? You top out, is that really what the objective was? Is that why I came here, to summit? I mean, yes. But if that’s why you came here alone, I think you’re not going to stick with it for very long.” After dodging a storm while climbing at Denali National Park in Alaska and having to hike eight miles on a broken leg after punching through a snow bridge in Peru, Haas says, he started reexamining where he was headed and where he wanted to end up. “When I came back I was like, ‘Why am I suffering?’” Haas says. “These alpine trips, they’re suffering. For me, they’re suffer fests. … There’s always some heinous weather, eating bad food, you’re tired and freezing all the time. Am I tough enough at this point that I can stop? [I had] this moment of, ‘Why am I still doing all these things?’ So I shifted gears, to wanting to seek that introspection and self-discovery but not be so cold all the time. Not have to go so far from home to be able to have those experiences — which I still think are really important and make me a better person.” Haas returned to Michigan, took the GRE and applied to grad school. Eventually earning a master’s degree in special education, he settled near Boulder, the “Hollywood of climbing,” Haas says. Ten years, two kids, a wife and a guidebook publishing business later, Haas teaches math at Pomona High School in Arvada, but that’s not the only subject he’s hoping to teach. A board member on the Flatiron Climbing Council for nine years and a founding member of the Boulder Climbing Community, he says he’s trying help others find adventures, discover more about themselves and explore, without having to brush as close to death as he did in Africa. “I wanted to share things and I wanted to give back, but I wanted something tangible,” Haas says. “I knew how to place bolts really well, and there are a lot of bolts around here and there are just not a lot of people replacing them. It still goes back a little bit to Africa — we went up, we went up, we went up and we shouldn’t have. But we went up and we were fine. The real problem was going down, and I’ve seen a lot of accidents with people going down. To me... to this day, the scariest part of climbing is going down, see GLORY Page 32

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been taking these falls on, or you show them a video of, ‘Here’s your hanger, [and] here’s your hanger under a load’ and it snaps — [it shows] these things are not as good as you think they are.” Rather than snapping off bolts and drilling new ones every 20 years, he suggests using bolts that will potentially last for hundreds of years. By expanding the education available and offering participants the equipment and knowledge necessary to responsibly replace bolts, Haas says re-bolting can be lifted from a select number of individuals to the climbing community as a whole. And between running a full-time business, working full-time as a teacher and trying to be a good husband and father, Haas is spending more time with two feet on the ground, making the need for others with his drive and skill set that much more important. “Climbing’s the first thing to go when I have to make sacrifices, [it’s] just what can you cut into,” Haas says, his two-month-old daughter draped over his shoulder as he gently rubs her back. “And really the only reason I can do any of this is because of [my wife].” In June, he plans to travel to Yosemite to climb three big routes in two weeks — Lurking Fear on El Capitan (5.7 C2), the Regular Route on the northwest face of Half Dome (5.12a/b) and Romantic Warrior (5.12b) in the Needles of California. “I’d hope to think that it’s not my last hoorah, in terms of a big trip, but it will be one of few,” Haas says. “With Yosemite, I recognize that this is perhaps my one, probably is, honestly, my one shot at this objective. ... So I’ve got to make the most of it.” Standing in his garage, pointing out the different holds canvassing the wood paneling he’s fashioned into a climbing wall that covers nearly all the empty space in the dimly-lit room, following the multi-colored tape detailing each meticulously planned route with his eyes, there’s a sense that Haas left a piece of his identity on that spire on Mount Kenya 15 years earlier, and that climbing offers him the endless pursuit of filling that hole, exploring that mystery in the clouds. “I get the whole ‘back to Africa’ thing,” Haas says. “What’s my path? It’s always evolving. I always want something changing, and I always want to learn. [It’s] a key piece of why I’ve done all the things that I’ve done, these alpine things to different climbing styles to stewardship, I just want to keep learning.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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buzz Storytelling takes the stage

Michael Ensminger

Local Lab pares down the spectacle to let the raw, experimental core of theater shine through by Elizabeth Miller

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Daisuke Tsuje and Steven Cole Hughes in Thoreau, and Other Assholes during the 2014 Local Lab.

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Kristen Adele and Steven Cole Hughes in Faith at Local Lab in 2014.

heater, at its core, is storytelling. It’s a gathering together to hear another’s life story, to see ourselves in those stories in ways that make our own stories make a little more sense and to experience that catharsis as part of an audience. At Local Lab, the three-day festival of new plays, the experience is stripped back to just the stories. Actors read from scripts still in hand. Playwrights take chances and venture experiments they wouldn’t in the presence of New York City’s daunting theater scene. “The live experience of telling stories as a culture is something that we have been doing from the beginning of time, and at a fundamental level I think it’s the way stories are most effective, that it’s most impressionable in our minds and on our psyche to tell these stories live together among each other,” says Pesha Rudnick, artistic director of Local Theater Company. Local Lab preserves that tradition of telling stories together, while also working to demystify the process of what happens to bring those stories to the stage. “We decided to kind of pull back the curtain of what happens leading up to a full production and took this idea that great storytelling is at the heart of great theater, and that it would be fun to pull the spectacle away from a play and hear it with the audience in a supportive environment,” Rudnick says. “We have a hipper scene in the Lab, but that’s really what the Lab is about, stripping down and telling stories together.”

That festival sprang from the initial production for the theater company, which launched three and a half years ago with John Lithgow’s Stories by Heart. Lithgow’s pared-down play centers on the act of telling stories, and it provoked conversations among Local Theater Company members about how that action of telling and listening to stories is at the heart of all great theater. Local Lab evolved as an extension of those ideas. Play submissions are taken from any Colorado writer and by solicitation only for out-of-state writers. “The locavore movement has spread into the arts as well, so a lot of funders want to support entirely locally grown efforts, which I can totally appreciate that, but I also think it’s important for us to be exposed to a Korean-American play,” says Mare Trevathan, associate artistic director for Local Theater Company and director of Hannah and the Dread Gazebo — a Korean-American play. In it, Dr. Hannah Lee reunites with her family in Seoul for the first time in 20 years after her grandmother commits suicide in a way that lands her on the wrong side of the DMZ, leaving her family to struggle with how to retrieve grandma’s body. Every play submitted to Local gets read all the way through and scored and assessed in one to two pages of responses on what’s working and what isn’t, the theme, the genre. Enough points and it moves on to the next reader — that first round usually pares from more than a see STORYTELLING Page 36

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ful post-show discussions where I think well. And he officially changed the sechundred to roughly three dozen. a lot of talk-backs kind of devolve into ond act of his play,” Rudnick says. Eventually, the four local company ‘How did you learn all those lines?’ “Theater is such a living, breathing members sit down and argue on behalf which I actually think is a totally fair organism of an event that you never of their favorites. Three will be given question, however, it doesn’t really know how a particular audience in a staged readings during the festival. expand an audience’s experience of the particular place will respond to a play,” Rudnick cites a few rubrics she work and certainly with a new play, fesBrian Watkins, writer of Wyoming, said looks to — perhaps a sense of urgency, tival audience feedback comes in at a in emailed comments. “I think play a visual or spectacle element, elevated critical and powerful juncture for the development and readings and worklanguage that is also used with econoplaywright,” Trevathan says. “Whether my, characters that are out of the ordishops all serve as different test kitchens nary or have, on this for a playwright. particular day, choMichael Ensminger They allow you to sen to do something get to the core out of the ordinary. ingredients of the And does the play play, to see what make a promise fits and what within the first 15 doesn’t. The readpages or so? ing is another “If it doesn’t, the chance to take a Lab is the perfect few risks and try place to say, ‘OK, some things out this playwright is that could breathe breaking the rule, new life into the let’s see if it works in play that I’m not this context,’” she aware of or identify says. “It rarely works problems I’m not to get 15 to 20 minkeen to.” utes into a show and Wyoming, which not kind of know tells the story of a what the thrust of family’s response the play is.” after an estranged Gabra Zackman and Jamie Ann Romero in Thoreau, and Other Assholes during the 2014 Local Lab. They’ve discovbrother is spotted ered one thing about in a town diner new play developafter 20 years, [playwrights] decide to act on people’s ment: There always has to be a party. will be one of three plays given staged reactions to it or not, it’s helpful to The conversations provoked by those readings during Local Lab. For know what’s actually being inspired in works demand a get-together at their Watkins, taking his new play out for a conclusion, so Local Lab includes social people. Jill’s able to get at that in a way test drive here has much to do with the that’s safe for the playwright, because events daily throughout the festival. sense of place itself. Noticing that their audiences tend to be it’s a very vulnerable position.” “There are artists in Colorado that As in, it would be easy to get insult- have a firsthand knowledge of the land filled with writers and storytellers, this ed, like with the answers to questions year, they’re expanding the programand culture this play occupies. It’s the like this next one. ming to include an opportunity for perfect crucible to test the mettle of the “The most important question we attendees to write their own work. thing,” he said via emailed comments. ask after every Lab is whether there was “The play is really about the elusiveness “As much as we’re receiving stories, there’s a part that also wants to tell sto- a point in the reading that the audience of memory and the stakes that it holds tuned out or felt sort of bored for lack in our relationship to history, specifically ries,” Rudnick says. of a better word,” Rudnick says. family history. I think this is directly Post-show discussions at the Local affected by the land our family occupies, Then they turn back a couple pages Lab are up-ended — it’s a bevy of questions, but from the playwrights to the in the script and look for when the story and I wanted to write something that contrasted the permanence of that land audiences. The idea was to have a symwent astray. with the temporality of its inhabitants.” biotic exchange: audiences help with “We really try to lay the foundation Watkins grew up in Colorado, new plays and get to be a part of that of helping them understand that it is watching shows at the Denver Center. development, playwrights learn and indeed a Lab, and this is the chance to “The West is a former home that’s Local screens new plays for developtry the thing that you’re scared of trying left me moonstruck since I left it. There ment in subsequent seasons. Talk-backs in a production,” Rudnick says. is something about leaving the place discussed the themes of the play, characDuring the 2014 Lab, Kyle Warren where you grew up that helps you finally ters, images that stuck. Jill Rafson, decided to rewrite his entire second act gain scope as a writer,” he writes. “The director of new play development for between the day of rehearsals and the breadth and expanse of the land itself is Roundabout Theatre Company in New day of performance to try something somehow rife with myth and as a storyYork, the largest nonprofit theater com- he’d been unwilling to attempt during a teller that’s endlessly compelling, particpany in America, leads those conversareading in New York — with all the ularly because it’s personal, it’s where I tions. literati and critics there to see. grew up. Every one of my plays has a “She’s able to have these really skill“It worked and it went over very Boulder Weekly

buzz core that explores how and why the land we live on shapes us. “I don’t think this is a narrative that we can get away from as Americans, and the West in particular epitomizes this. It’s built on these tones of ambition that are at once territorial and transient, and from that you can find these characters that are all impulse and action, which I find a lot of myself in too. I think that’s part of why I’m compelled to write about it: It’s trying to figure out where I came from, and exploring how the West came to capture the sort of inner wanderlust I know so well myself.” It is, in other words, a little bit a story about himself. And need for storytelling that reflects who we are now is still a driving force in the push to create new plays. “Our canon here, it’s mostly dead white men, and when it’s not dead white men it’s dead white women. We are not representative in the theater yet, we’re totally gaining on it, but we’re not yet representative,” Trevathan says. “It’s like saying, I have not had the burden of being a feminist because of the generations before me, and yet we have not had a female president. It’s like, yes there’s a whole lot of activity now that is more diverse, but what’s actually entrenched is a very narrow slice of the American experience.” Trevathan says it’s always struck her as a funny thing that we ask, why new plays? “This is one of the sole areas of human creativity that that question is asked repeatedly of, why new, why new? We don’t ask that of film and TV and movies and any other narrative art form that question isn’t asked, so I’m not sure why we ask it of plays,” she says. It has a reputation for perhaps not being as populist as some of its counterparts, she concedes, but then again, looking at some of the work coming from new companies like Buntport in Denver, there is some very funny, very accessible work out there. “But I think bad theater is so painful and claustrophobic,” she says. “You feel like you’re not sure how you have to behave ... and that’s our industry’s fault of not letting the audience members know just what their role is or bending our role for the audience so it is more comfortable and accessible.” That’s been part of the motivation in drawing back the curtain a bit. They’ve even recently led salons exploring Aristotle’s six filters for drama — plot, character, thought, diction, music and spectacle. “It is useful to have some sort of filter by which to look at something more abstract or cerebral. For the comfort zone of an audience, to feel like they Boulder Weekly

can articulate what they didn’t like Boulder have become sort of part of our about it,” Trevathan says. “I think it’s world, and we share new plays with like visual art that there are going to be each other, we introduce each other to pieces you respond to and you don’t and other playwrights,” Rudnick says. “They it can be handy to be able to say what have place, all nine of them at this specifically you like and you don’t, but point, that if they have a play that that’s really just about our comfort level they’re in the scary phase, the vulneraas human beings, feeling as if we’re ble phase of ‘I just need an audience at smart and capable, it’s also totally fine this point because I have no idea what for things to just be like, ‘Nah, but there I’m doing,’ Local is here to provide that was this one thing it made me think environment and pull actors together of....’ Not everything is for everybody, for them.” but we are trying to give people ways to Local has also decided to do a full look at it.” production of James McLindon’s play Of course, part of the challenge Faith, which was in the 2014 Lab. with a new play is that, sure it may not Local is not alone in its support of be for everybody, but the somebodys it new play development. The is for may not know that, this being a Catamounts and Boulder Ensemble new, unfamiliar work. Ticket sales are Theater Company are both in or about far from guaranto start runs of teed. regional premieres, A “I totally Public Reading of an ON THE BILL: Local Lab 2015 understand why Unproduced takes place March 13-15 at eTown so many compaScreenplay About the Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. The nies gravitate to Death of Walt Disney weekend includes readings of Brian Watkins’ Wyoming, Jihae Park’s works that are for Catamounts and Hannah and the Dread Gazebo proven already, Stupid F##king Bird and Meridith Friedman’s The because it’s for BETC. Firestorm. A complete schedule of readings and parties is at www. expensive, obvi“It’s an exciting localtheatercompany.org. ously, to put on a theater scene in play of any kind if Boulder because you’re paying there are so many folks to do it and stories that have been people doing new work,” says Emily proven, or at least workshopped over Harrison, producing artistic director of and over again, kind of work. They’re Square Product Theatre, which focuses much less of a risk,” Rudnick says. on regional and world premieres. They “There are plenty of times where I’ve recently opened with the world prethought, ‘Gosh, why can’t we just do miere of Ham Macbeth, a loose, “offDeath of a Salesman?’ But you know, the-rails” adaptation of Macbeth. Death of a Salesman was a new play and The Boulder Fringe Festival takes a so was Streetcar [Named Desire] and I little credit for building up an audience think in terms of the investment, which in town willing to come and see new is a funny word to use in the context of and untested work. That festival is back art, I feel like it’s exciting and it’s riskthis year under promising new leadertaking to invest in this generation of ship. writers because I do feel like there are a “I think there is a pioneering spirit few stories that are told over and over here, and it’s a little corny to say but we again, but I think I’m interested in the see it in business, we see it with entrepreneurship, there’s a risk-taking part of voices of right now and the writers of our culture here that really supports right now. new work,” Rudnick says. “One of the “I think it’s hard to get companies things I wish they knew and I hope, I to commit to valuing those voices and think we’re able to illustrate it during knowing that it takes years to cultivate the Lab, is they are very much a part of a voice. It’s different from Moby Dick, any play’s growth and success on any from a writer sitting in his room and given night. writing for 10 years. For playwrights, “We talk a lot about this sort of idea they really need an audience every six to that we’re Local Theater Company and eight months to hear what they’re the ‘local’ part of our company actually working on, and so I feel like it’s our refers to our audience, all theater is way of participating in the process of local, on a performance level, we create new American plays and creating a a community based on whoever shows canon that’s from our generation, or of up that day, and this idea that theater is our generation.” not theater unless there’s an audience Watkins and his fellow playwrights there, that’s what makes it unique from at this year’s Lab will be added to the all the other forms.” list of playwrights with whom Local In other words, come in, sit down, maintains a relationship. and listen to a few stories. “All the playwrights who have now Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com spent a long weekend with us in

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ny list of hardest-working Sexton has never had a radio hit. from [the Beatles’] Abbey Road and The musicians should include the Nevertheless, he now headlines theaters White Album,’ to range from ‘Blackbird’ name Martin Sexton. He’s and large clubs nationwide largely to ‘Helter Skelter’ on the same album. released 10 full-length stubecause of word-of-mouth raves for his I’ve always dug that. I’ve loved the dio albums over a 20-year music and for his engaging live perforwhole journey of an album, where it career, and has maintained a relentless mances that draw fans year after year. ranges from this quiet thing to a big touring schedule that commonly thing. So on this record, I just Jo Chattman finds him on the road for a year stepped on the gas and headed or more with the touring cycle in that direction and made it for each release. even more so of a mixtape.” ON THE BILL: Martin Sexton with The first run of shows in The excellent album indeed Stephen Kellogg. Doors at 7 p.m., support of his new album, covers lots of stylistic ground. show at 8 p.m. Saturday, March Mixtape of the Open Road, fits There is the shuffling retro21. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Tickets $25 the pattern. It finds Sexton hitcountry of “Do it Daily,” acousadvance, $27.50 day of, $75 for ting 50 cities from coast to coast tic folk in “Set in Stone,” a bit VIP. until mid-May. And when he of rootsy jazz on “Doin’ steps on stage for his show Something Right,” bluesy soul March 21 at Boulder Theater, on “Give it Up,” Grateful Deadhe won’t be complaining. ish rock on “Shut Up And Sing” “You can do anything for and rowdy, fuzzed-up rock on 20 years. You could be a taste “Remember That Ride.” tester at Ben & Jerry’s and that Lyrically, Mixtape of the can get old after 20 years,” Open Road is more light-hearted Sexton remarked during a latethan Sexton’s previous two January phone interview. “But releases. The 2010 album by the grace of God, I love the Sugarcoating and his 2012 EP, work. I love finishing an album Fall Like Rain, both leaned and getting on the horse and toward topical subject matter, as starting the [touring] cycle like Sexton shared his frustrations we are right now, doing the with issues like divisions within interviews, meeting people, politics and the American popthrowing the shows, signing ulation, the growing gulf the records. I love all that. And between the rich and working class and the ongoing war in I love the performance the Afghanistan. most of all.” Mixtape, though, has more Sexton even likes the travelof a sweet, and at times nostaling that comes with being a Martin Sexton prefers playing solo shows to let his creativity gic or humorous, tone. Sexton touring musician — an aspect of run wild on stage. stressed that there’s still social the job that countless artists find awareness built into some of the tedious and downright wearing. new songs. “What a wonderful thing to see And his current tour has Sexton “There’s a track called ‘Shut Up and Europe and North America and playing in perhaps his favorite format. Australia, to see it and experience it, “This is primarily a solo tour, which Sing.’ To listen to it, you wouldn’t know really that it’s got any sort of unlight and to take in the people and the food,” I so love,” Sexton said. “I tour with subject matter,” Sexton said. “But that’s he said. “To me, every day is like its bands from time to time or duo or all about, I remember the Dixie Chicks, own little gem that I get to unwrap other configurations, but something they spoke out against the government every day and share with people.” about the solo show, there’s a certain and they caught all kinds of heat for it. Audiences have obviously responded immediacy to the performance.” Someone said ‘Shut up and sing’ to to what Sexton brings to the table. In a As its title suggests, the new album them, you know, like just close your career that started with his 1992 debut was inspired musically in part by mixmouth and sing the tunes and entertain release, In the Journey, (he sold some tapes — those collections of songs us like you’re supposed to. So that track 20,000 copies of that album while busfriends put together for each other on is sort of about that... This is all about king and at shows), went on to include cassettes (back in the old days) and don’t spin your wheels talking about it. a pair of major label releases for more recently on CDs or digitally. Atlantic Records (The American in 1998 Sexton followed the lead of the diversi- Put it in a song so that millions of people will hear it and maybe it will inspire and Wonder Bar in 2000), and since ty of mixtapes he has received. them to take action.” then, has featured six more albums on “My records have always been very Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com his own Kitchen Table Records label, rangy,” he said. “I’ve always taken a tip

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ynthia Katsarelis has conducted many concerts, but her next program with the Pro Musica Colorado ON THE BILL: Voices of Light. Oratorio by Richard Chamber Orchestra is unique EInhorn. Pro Musica Colorado and exciting in many ways. Chamber Orchestra, Cynthia “It’s fab,” she says. “It’s Katsarelis, conductor. The Passion of Joan of Arc, silent just fab!” film by Carl Theodor Dreyer. She is referring to Voices of 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 13, St. Light by Richard Einhorn, John’s Cathedral, 1350 Washington St., Denver. 7:30 which Pro Musica Colorado Saturday, March 14, First will perform with a screening United Methodist, 1412 Spruce of the 1928 silent film The St., Boulder. Tickets: 720-4430565. https://app.arts-people. Passion of Joan of Arc, directed com/index. by Carl Theodor Dreyer. An php?ticketing=promu oratorio for small orchestra, chorus and soloists, Voices of Light was composed in 1994 Despite being a silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc won’t be silent when accomspecifically to accompany Dreyer’s film, panyied by Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra. which is considered one of the greatest silent films ever made. and it takes a lot to produce it. It is a was conceived.” Performances are at 7:30 p.m. tribute to the imagination and commit“It’s a great line,” Katsarelis says. “I Friday, March 13 in St. John’s ment by the board at Pro Musica as really recommend that people read the Cathedral, Denver, and Saturday, well as the staff at the cathedral to get libretto, because if you know what’s March 14 in First United Methodist this produced.” going on in the oratorio as it’s being Church, Boulder. Soloists appearing Katsarelis threw herself into the shown on the film, it’s incredible comwith Pro Musica and the St. John’s project, even bicycling around France to mentary. [The libretto can be downCathedral Choir will be soprano Ashley locations associated with Joan of Arc. loaded from the composer’s web page: Hoffman, alto Marjorie Bunday, tenor “In Rouen I went to the tower http://www.richardeinhorn.com/vol/vol. Steven Soph and bass David Farwig. where she was imprisoned. I went to libretto.pdf ] “The Passion of Joan of Arc is a masthe Vieux marché, the Old Market “For example, you’ve got this multiterpiece,” Katsarelis says. “Even though where she was martyred. In Orleans I layered text going on during the portion the film is from 1928 it is seriously went to the cathedral, I went to some of the film that is showing the interroavant-garde, with its use of close-ups, of the sites of the battles, I went to the gation. It’s just fascinating, and it’s with its extreme angles. The acting by museum. And I really felt more conalmost overwhelming in its power.” Renée Jeanne Falconetti [as Joan] is just nected for going to those sites.” So much so that Katsarelis does not amazing.” One of the remarkable things that recommend the performance for children. The film revolves around the trial of she discovered is how much is known Katsarelis described the style of Joan, who said she heard voices telling about Joan. Einhorn’s music as “neo-medieval.” Just her how to save France from the “She’s perhaps the most well-doculike his text, the music draws from variEnglish invaders. Even though she was mented medieval peasant that there is,” ous medieval sources, including relian illiterate peasant, she persuaded the Katsarelis says. Transcripts have been gious chant and multi-voiced church Dauphin and the French army to follow preserved of two trials — the first when motets. At points instruments in the her, she defeated the English at Orleans Joan was condemned as a heretic, and a orchestra imitate medieval instruments, and saw the Dauphin crowned as King second trial that restored her to the and Einhorn even went so far as to Charles VII. She was subsequently cap- church — as well as letters she dictated. travel to Joan’s home village of tured by the English and condemned as The trial transcripts were used for the Domremy and record the bells of the a heretic, but her victories led to film. Even though it is silent, the actors church that stand next to her family France’s defeat of the English. were speaking lines from the transcripts, home. That recording is used in the which intensifies both the drama of their performance as well. Katsarelis became interested in the performances and the impact of the film. oratorio/film program when Alberto “It’s really effective musically,” When Einhorn began to write the Gutierrez, music administrator at St. Katsarellis says. “It’s a very amazing and John’s Cathedral in Denver, approached oratorio to go with the film, he turned beautiful and evocative oratorio. to a variety of sources for his text: the her about the possibility of a perforEinhorn, who has extensive experience writing of medieval mystics including mance at the cathedral. as a film composer, really nailed it with a great piece of music that goes with “He really knows what [music there Hildegard of Bingen, excerpts from is] out there, and had a relationship Joan’s letters, the Bible, and other this amazing film. with the composer and the company sources. Einhorn described these texts “What we have is something that that manages this,” Katsarelis explains. as “representing the spiritual, political merges two fabulous works of art.” “This is a rare and special thing, and metaphorical womb in which Joan Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Young ballerinas work hard and dream big by Devin Blomquist

oung ballerinas are dispersed throughout the building, stretching their long, lean limbs, lacing up their satin pointe shoes and sitting patiently as mothers, friends or teachers apply finishing touches on hair and makeup at the Youth America Grand Prix Regional Semi-Finals in Denver in late February. Some stand against railings and cabinets at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts to balance themselves while going through the motions of their upcoming performances. First position, second position, third position, fourth. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. It takes far more than a pair of pointe shoes and a pretty face to make it this far in the competition. These ballerinas have had to find space in their busy lives to make time for hundreds of hours of intense practice and rehearsal time. Thirteen-year-old Isabella Bertellotti says she has been practicing ballet for about 10 years. She currently practices six days a week for a total of 15 to 20 hours in the studio. To prepare for this competition, Isabella began intensive training about two months ago, which incorporated two additional private sessions with her teacher each week. “It’s a lot and very time consuming, but it’s worth it when you get to be on stage,” Isabella says as her bright pink lips part into a big, genuine smile. Sophia Frilot, another young ballerina at the Youth America Grand Prix event, says she practices nearly 20 hours each week as well. One month ago, she broke her toe, which has required her to practice even more in preparation for this event. Sophia says she tapes it before slipping into her pointe shoes. As far as pain? She says pointe, in general, is a pain ballerinas simply get used to, but there isn’t much additional pain performing on a broken toe. These ballerinas receive about 15 minutes of open stage time before each round of performances. Ballerinas flood the stage during this time, each in their own brightly colored costume, made complete

with a bedazzled tiara, full tutu or only of conlight, sleek skirt. This is the last cern to chance to practice on the stage some ballebefore performing for the judges rinas themand an audience filled with selves, but friends and family members. to mothers Both ballerinas have to find of such athletes as well. time to commute about an hour Wendy and a half to two hours each day Bertellotti, — Isabella to her ballet school Isabella’s and Sophia to her performing arts school — to practice and mother, also take classes during or after references Bertellotti performs at the Youth America Grand Prix school. Homework is either done Isabella the effects in Denver. in between or after school and of what it ballet class. means and For some ballerinas, the training gets even more what it takes to be a ballerina. There is a very narrow intensive as they grow older. Athena Nikolakopulos, a definition for success in ballet, she says, and scary 17-year-old ballerina from Los Angeles and competi- stereotypes and self-destructive behaviors abound. tor at the Youth America Grand Prix, says she prac“We talk about it and communicate with tices every day, totaling 36 to 40 hours each week. [Isabella],” Bertellotti says, “emphasizing a healthy Her training is a full-time job, on top of the demands relationship with food and taking care of her body.” of schoolwork and time with family or friends. Bertellotti says she and her daughter have met a According to these ballerinas, all of this praclot of dancers who are healthy and live well. tice has a purpose, an end goal that reaches far “She has a lot of good role models in her life of beyond winning competitions. These ballerinas how to be a healthy ballerina — that’s important,” practice with the hopes of an opportunity to be Bertellotti says. picked up by a major ballet company or dance For some, this competition acts as the gateway to school. For Isabella, the ultimate goal is to be a the final round of the Youth America Grand Prix in principal dancer in a major company like the New York City, where ballerinas continue the comBolshoi Ballet Grigorovich Company in Russia or petition for scholarships to leading ballet schools and the American Ballet Theatre. dance companies. Isabella and Sophia both placed in As the thick smell of hairspray wafts through the the top 12 men and women for the contemporary halls, Nikolakopulos says one of the toughest aspects dance category of the junior age division, and of becoming a ballerina is being able to understand Nikolakopulos tied for third place in the women’s and deal with the industry emphasis on aesthetics. classical dance category of the senior age division at “It’s discouraging that if you’re not born with the Youth America Grand Prix Semi-Finals in something, there’s nothing you can do about it,” she Denver. If their scores are high enough, they will be says, before rushing off to help her younger sister, invited to attend the week-long New York City who is also competing, prepare for her time on stage. Finals in April. The idea of the perfect ballerina aesthetic is not Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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ustice, Inc. is the debut short-story colistic story [“Time Warp Café”] things still suck. lection by former Boulder Weekly A&E After finishing the book I just had to ask, “What editor Dale Bridges, who left the paper things make Dale Bridges happy?” in 2009 to rent a tiny room on the Hill [Laughs]. Pretty simple things make me and write stories about, among other happy. I’m an introvert, so nothing’s better than things, zombies, InstaBabies, clones made for the reading a good book. I like people one on one; it’s purpose of public executions and recreational killwhen they group up into like-minded groups that ing sparked by conversations at Denny’s. I get nervous. That’s when they scare me. People Bridges, who grew up in Colorado and now seem to be obsessed with happiness, and I’m such lives in Austin, writes about the black hearts of an asshole; that’s just my normal state. I was born both men and women with both levity and vitriol. a grumpy 70-year-old man who’s constantly tellThe up-and-coming satirist currently works the ing people to stay off his lawn. And when I’m nightshift at a bookstore in Austin; he says the making these observations about the world I can’t “weird customers” inspire his writing. Recently, understand why everybody else isn’t seeing the Bridges called Boulder Weekly to talk about Justice, things I’m seeing, why they’re trying to be happy Dale Bridges finds violent inspiration in the everyday world around Inc. about it. At the very least we should get angry, him. Boulder Weekly: Did you start writing short stobecause we know the horrible things going on in ries as a kid? nicate his emotions was through violence. the world. Dale Bridges: Not really, no. I was really into That one was an exploration of fantasy and conWhat’s an example? reading but I did not grow up in an artistic family at trol, how that can be wrong, even though there’s We live in a perfectly nice neighborhood in all, so [writing] was not something that you would nothing wrong with people having fantasies. And he Austin, and walking around I see this guy all the time. consider or take very seriously. So, I didn’t even really gets an object. It’s not a person. He doesn’t have to He’s standing outside of one of those “Cash for Gold” start writing until I was about ready to graduate [from control his fantasies with her. And I didn’t know it things holding a sign that says “Cash for Gold.” He the University of Northern Colorado]. I was, like, 23. was going to go that dark until I was at least halfway just reeks of alcohol and he’s wearing a clown, rainThey don’t even have a writing program. I was there through the story and I realized where it was headed. bow wig for no apparent reason, and female breasts because, honestly, it was the college I could afford. That’s when I knew it was good, when I was writing beneath his shirt, and an American flag wrapped Nobody in my family had gone to a secular college, and was, like, “I don’t even want to have these around his neck as a cape. And he’s dancing there, and either. My dad had gone to Bible college. I didn’t real- thoughts in my head.” someone has made this poor man, who obviously ly know what I was doing; I just knew I wanted to One of the big questions I had after reading just doesn’t have any other options, do this thing. And this leave Yuma [Colo.], and I didn’t want to go to the half of the book was, “Are we all inherently hateful, ter- is somebody in my neighborhood who I see every day. Army. But that’s when I started writing, toward the rible people, or are we all just weak, confused people So that’s the anger, the shocking and the dark humor end of my undergrad. Really, really terrible stories, but who aren’t in control at all?” and all of that. It’s right outside my door. People are I started writing and knew that’s what I wanted to do. I think we’re all definitely capable of the worst like, “Where do you get these ideas?” and I say, “It’s What does your fascination with violence stem possible behavior, and that’s an important thing to right there, all the time.” from? realize. As Americans, especially white Americans, What effect did Boulder have on you? I’m not sure it’s a fascination so much as it’s most of us live a pretty cushy existence. I think that’s I don’t think the environment is the big thing. The maybe a writing tool. Some of it is a way to grab the why shows like Breaking Bad are popular, sort of writer needs to find [his or her] pace and a little room reader’s attention, and then some of it is just an reminding us where we’re all at. I don’t think we’re all to write in. And Boulder provided me with that. It evil; I just think we’re animals with all the instincts attempt to grab a reader that’s been desensitized to was definitely a turning point in my writing. It was a that come along with being animals. The harm comes really important time. Boulder provided me with the violence. I do think I use [violence] as a tool to grab when we try to elevate ourselves into something high- room to write in and the means to get published, and the reader’s attention, but I hope I do more with it er. You’re not going to transcend your natural, animal than just sort of lean on it as a crutch. I met a lot of great writers and artists who were supnature. We’re not going to become pure spirit. You do. The story that affected me the most was portive and talked me down from a ledge when I need A lot of the book is really funny, and a lot is really “The Girlfriend.” It seemed like the only way the man it. It was the place that helped me get started. who ordered the robot girlfriend knew how to commu- shocking, but there’s so much hate. Even in the futurRespond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Music Bobby Dunne at The Laughing Goat. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Bonnie and Taylor Sims. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth

Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

Boulder Swing Collective. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louis-

ville, 303-993-2094.

Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Sol-

ids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

David Booker. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park),

1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Dexter Payne Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St.,

Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Così fan tutte

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Friday to Saturday, March 13 to 14, Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303492-8423. Mozart’s opera Cosi fan tutte, translated as “women are like that,” follows two beautiful sisters and their adventures with Glenn Asakawa men. When it premiered back in 1790, no one lifted an eyebrow at its subject matter, but 19th and 20th century operagoers considered it too vulgar. That same shift in attitude reminded University of Colorado stage director Leigh Holamn of the seemingly-scandalous romantic comedies of the late ’50s and early ’60s, such as Pillow Talk and The Facts of Life. So Holman decided to mix the two eras. At CU’s production of the classic opera, expect Mozart with a twist of Doris Day.

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Greensky Bluegrass. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St.,

Boulder, 303-786-7030.

James and the Devil. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub,

1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Kort McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut

St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Maggie Taberna. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main

St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Open Stage with Eben Grace. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Revivalists. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder,

303-447-0095.

Spafford. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303see EVENTS Page 46

Think

Chill

Son of Very Short Stories

Frozen Dead Guy Days

7:30 p.m. Friday, March 13, Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Friday to Sunday, March 13 to 15. All day. Nederland, 303-5061048.

Finishing a meaty book such as War and Peace comes with a sense of accomplishment. But if reading more than 560,000 words sounds too long, try something more bite sized. Flash fiction is even briefer than short stories and uses only a handful of words to pack just as mighty a punch as longer literature. Theater company Stories on Stage is celebrating micro stories by bringing Son of Short Stories to Boulder on March 13. The show will feature two- to three-minute stories about a variety of different topics presented by Buntport Theater Company.

Courtesy of Frozen Dead Guy Days

Another year older, another year... still frozen. The annual festival Frozen Dead Guy Days celebrates everybody’s favorite frozen grandpa Bredo Morstoel, who resides in suspended animation in a shed in Nederland. The morbid, frosty festival is back for its 14th year with its unique activities like the parade of hearses, costume polar plunge, brain freeze contest, frozen salmon toss, ice carving and coffin races. There will be plenty of food and music from bands including White Fudge and Galaxy Agent. It’s a good weekend to embrace the macabre and hope that one day people will throw a festival in honor of your frozen corpse.

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440-3355. Strings Attached Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian

Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

arts

Vain Brains Family Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. The Youngest. 6 p.m. Shine Restaurant &

Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120. Events

Barley-Har-Har Comedy Night. 7 p.m. 300 Suns

Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-4428292.

Brakes 101. 6:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805

Wilderness Place, Boulder, 720-565-6019.

Fabricate. 5:30 p.m. Fabricate, 2023 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245. Food Chains Movie Screening. 7 p.m. JCC Boul-

der, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900. Getting Started with Final Cut Pro X. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. The Great Indian Novel. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Hushed Stories: Stories from the Arapaho and Sioux Nations of Boulder County. 6 p.m. Boulder

Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Raise the Seat. 10 a.m. The Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-7293.

Friday, March 13 Music Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main

St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Big Paddy. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300

Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Big Something. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Brad Upton Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S.

Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

The CBDs. 7 p.m. Kathmandu Restaurant, 110 N. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-442-7771. Chris Daniels & The Kings. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s,

2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Dan Treanor & Afrosissippi Band. 8:30 p.m.

Stephen Althouse

Oil Paintings by Shari Farabaugh. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Through March 28.

Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 20. Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Art. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-2793922. Through March 22. The Book’s Undoing: Dieter Roth’s Artist’s Books. Special Collections Reading Room Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303492-6144. Through May 15.

Phil Bender. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29.

As part of The Dairy’s photography month celebration, Still Life: Three Perspectives features Stephen Althouse’s take on still life.

Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Aug. 27, 2017.

Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through March 15.

rePOPulated: Contemporary Perspectives on Pop Art. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29.

Call for Artists. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Deadline April 1.

Sean O’Meallie: Freeplay. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29.

First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 19.

Seeing, as I am — by Conor King. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through March 29.

Graceful Appearance Passion, Perception and Expression. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10. Legacy: The Photojournalism of Edward (Ted) Rozumalski. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10. Life Once Removed — Suzanne Heintz. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through March 29. Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 12.

Still Life: Three Perspectives. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10. Substrate. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through April 5. Textile Art by Annette Kennedy. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through March 28. Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17.

Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Daniella Katzir. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing

Jeff Brinkman. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.

Mike Finders. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-4852482.

Danny Shafer and 21st Century. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Joe Kellogg and the Blue Crabs. 7:30 p.m. Can-

Monte and Larry. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe &

Delilah’s Revenge. 8:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

John Bunzli. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company

Nahko and Medicine for the People. 9 p.m. Fox

Leibermonster. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s

Natural Motives. 9 p.m. Zenza Smokehouse, 4479 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-862-4277.

The Magic Beans. 8 p.m. The Black Forest Inn,

Pace Goodman and Many Mountains. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-8903993.

Dixie Leadfoot. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty

Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

DJ Wushu. 10 p.m. Tahona Tequila Bistro, 1035

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-938-9600.

Evergreen Grass Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15

E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Fast Eddy Duo. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile

Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Greensky Bluegrass. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater,

2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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non Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. (Lee Hill tap room), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Nederland.

Mary McHenry and Friends. 6:30 p.m. Still Cel-

lars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-2046064. Members of Mountain Standard Time & Spafford.

8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-3175522.

Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Pete Stein. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louis-

ville, 303-993-2094.

The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing

Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. see EVENTS Page 48

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Rapidgrass Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music

House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4447444.

Sambadende. 10 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. St. Patrick’s Celebration: 2 Cool Band. 8 p.m. Pacific Event Center, 1330 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-7676.

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour — by Joshua Ferris. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

pany, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Troy Clayton. 8 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Wandering Natives. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

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Monday, March 16 A Death on Diamond Mountain — by Scott Carney. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Events

Tuesday, March 17

The Art of Craft. 6 p.m. the DARKROOM Gallery,

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Music

7:00 PM LIVE FACULTY TALKS: NASA’S NEW HORIZONS MISSION TO PLUTO 9:00 PM LASER: SUBLIME 10:30 PM LASER PINK FLOYD: THE WALL 11:59 PM LASER: JIMI HENDRIX

Friday, March 13

Torbin Hadlock. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Com-

CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE.

Saturday, March 14

FRIDAY MARCH 6

Courtesy of Innisfree

Poet Kyle Dargan. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Meet the Artist: Suzanne Heintz. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

7:00 PM LIVE FACULTY TALKS: NASA’S NEW HORIZONS MISSION TO PLUTO 9:00 PM LASER: RADIOHEAD

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The Strangebyrds. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

515 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-7191.

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Wednesday, March 18 American Ghost — by Hannah Nordhaus. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Award-winning poet and author Karl Dargan hits Innisfree March 13.

Arthur Lee Land and Chicago Farmer Concert. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Bonnie & Taylor. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty

Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Boulder Children’s Chorale “Songs of Meaning.”

4 p.m. Atonement Lutheran Church of Boulder, 685 Inca Parkway, Boulder, 303-499-4567.

Craig Childs: Rocky Mountain River Celebration.

6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

David Booker. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Dikki Du and Zydeco Krewe. 8:30 p.m. Oskar

Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. DJ Goodie. 10 p.m. Tahona Tequila Bistro, 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-938-9600. Erika Ryann and Matthew Bean. 7:30 p.m. Har-

mony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Flatirons Community Orchestra Concert. 7 p.m. Harvest Baptist Church, 7493 Old Mill Trail, Boulder, 303-494-5081. Funky Tonk Heroes. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing

Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

The Goonies. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Greensky Bluegrass. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater,

2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Indigent Row. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Laurie D. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St.,

Boulder, 303-444-3133.

Mike Finders. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600

Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

Off The Record. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North-

park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Pimps of Joytime. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

mont, 303-485-9400.

The Prairie Scholars. 12 p.m. Mac’s Place, 1640

Pace St., Suite 400, Longmont, 303-678-8929.

Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303772-0258.

Radiate Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine

WadiRum. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl

Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

The Railsplitters and Monocle Band- Kaleidoscope Series. 7:30 p.m. CMF & CMA, 200 E.

Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0599.

Rastasaurus. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl

St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and

Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Rogue 2. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simp-

son St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Sammy Dee Morton Band. 8 p.m. The 28th

Street Tavern, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-4441562.

Shake Down Street and Dragondeer. 10 p.m.

Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-2580649.

St. Patty’s Party with Stone Cloves. 8:30 p.m.

Zenza Smokehouse, 4479 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-862-4277. Stella Luce. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community

House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303440-7666. Steve Manshel. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE.

Strange Americans. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s, 1447

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3055.

The Symbols. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First

Twirling Zuccinis. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing

St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Wool Eye. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Events All Ages Art Class. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio,

1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902.

Betty Woodman and Shark’s Ink. 6 p.m. 15th Street Studio, 1708 15th St., Boulder, 303-4472841. Boulder Jewish Film Festival. All day. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Healthy Aging: Sleep and Healthy Aging. 1 p.m.

CU Boulder, Benson Earth Sciences Room 180, 2200 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-5148.

The Hidden World of Bird Nests. 10 a.m. Walden

Ponds Wildlife Habitat, Jay Road and 75th St., Boulder, 303-441-3407.

Massage School for a Day. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Massage Therapy Institute, 2900 Valmont Ave, F1, Boulder, 303-618-5518. Parents Night Out. 5 p.m. Centennial Pool, 1201 Alpine St., Longmont, 303-651-8405. Rocks Karma Arrows. 10:15 a.m. Lafayette

Public Library, 775 Baseline Ave., Lafayette, 303-440-3682.

Something Different: A Conscious Comedy Show.

St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Sword Skirmish Club. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Elks Lodge, 3975 28th St., Boulder, 303-442-5003.

Touch of Blues. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Long-

Syrah Vertical Tasting. 1 p.m. Settembre Cellars

Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Drive,

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events Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892. Western Views. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001

Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Sunday, March 15

Open Stage. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Thunder and Rain. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s

Music

Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional

Westin Smith Duo. 8 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108

Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

Alex Heffron Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Events

BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Yoga

David Booker. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel

Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-2523962.

Defunkt Railroad. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing

Boulder Jewish Film Festival. All day. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303772-0258. Many Mountains. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing

Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303593-2066. Nick O’Connor. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. NoGo Gilbillies. 5 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Com-

pany, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

The Prairie Scholars: Longmont Songwriter Series. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave.,

Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Rapidgrass. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew,

303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

The Recovery Act. 8 p.m. Ski Eldora (Corona

Bar), 2861 Eldora Ski Road, Suite 140, Eldora Mountain Resort, Nederland. St. Patrick Party with Big Paddy. 7:30 p.m.

Cinema Program Free Screening of The Wizard of Oz. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave.,

Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Path of the Ceremonial Arts Introductory Afternoon. 1 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine

Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-245-8452.

Syrah Vertical Tasting. 1 p.m. Settembre Cellars

Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892. Monday, March 16 Music

BHS Choral Collage Concert. 6:15 p.m. Boulder

High School Auditorium, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2324.

Chancer’s Hooley. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing

Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303772-0258.

The Drunken Hearts. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Gasoline Lollipops. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main

St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

The Granias. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Kevin Dooley. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

Jeff and Paige. 5:30 p.m. Thorne Nature Center

Boulder, 1466 63rd St., Boulder, 720-336-1301.

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Mark Diamond and Friends. 7 p.m. Bohemian

Kevin Dooley. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461

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Dansko Women’s Thea Ankle Strap Sandal

Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

I & The Many Jazz. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301

Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe,

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Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing

Keith Summer and Friends. 6 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-9974164.

Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

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Hot Soup. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

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Music

Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home-

made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Southwest Acupuncture College • 6630 Gunpark Drive • Boulder, CO

Tuesday, March 17

Becky Bertolin. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

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The Science of Healthy Aging and Cocoon. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

World’s Smallest Parade. 12 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s

Free Family Event. 2 p.m. Douglass Elementary,

New Patients (Intern Clinics only) Seniors 55+ $12 Adults $22

Google Analytics: Beyond the Basics. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Urinetown. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Feb. 7.

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ie Antwoord, a South African rave-rap group composed of rappers Ninja and Yolandi Vi$$er, are what some would call an “acquired taste” and others would call “Oh God, no! What is that? Kill it with fire.” If you haven’t seen images of the band, please tell those of us who have seen them what sleeping without night terrors is like. Chappie doesn’t just star Ninja and Yolandi, it’s their movie. Their music is the soundtrack. Their insane personalized slang litters the dialogue. Their subplot eventually moves from “B” position to “A” position. What I’m saying is this: If you threw up in your mouth a little at the phrase “rave-rap” and giggled at a white South African rapper named Ninja, you won’t survive Chappie. As someone who actually owns several of their albums (this is a no-judgment zone), the primary problem is that writer/ director Neill Blomkamp (District 9) only half-commits to the creative insanity Die Antwoord oozes. While he puts them front and center in all possible ways, he dials their surroundings and the script down to basic, rote clichés. Die Antwoord traffics in the audaciously ridiculous, daring you to walk the razor’s edge of their comedic self-parody and straight-faced gangster badassery with them. Chappie never has the guts to commit to that. Instead, the plot is nothing but a tired reworking of artificial intelligence clichés. Deon (Dev Patel) is a programmer who helped bring an automated robotic police force to Johannesburg. He wants to take the tech even further, much like the real-world scientists who are undoubtedly hastening our demise at the hands of our future robot overlords.

Deon’s rival, Vincent (Hugh Jackman), is trying to pimp his police tech design, a huge hulking monstrosity that’s total overkill (with ground-to-air missiles) but controlled by a human. Deon cracks the code for computer sentience by the power of Red Bull and uses a broken robot to test it. Unfortunately, Deon and his newly selfaware robot are kidnapped by low-life criminals Ninja (Ninja) and Yolandi (Yolandi Vi$$er)…yes, Die Antwoord even keep their stage names as characters in the movie. Ninja and Yolandi, or “daddy and mommy” as Chappie (Sharlto Copely) creepily calls them, try to trick the robot, with a child’s intellect, into becoming their secret weapon for a big heist. I can’t imagine what seeing Ninja and Yolandi on the big screen for the first time would be like. I half wanted to watch people watching the movie more than watch the movie. No matter his shortcomings elsewhere, Blomkamp can straight-up visually crush even the most boring, muted sequences. From gorgeous environments, like the gang’s hideout, to frenzied robot-on-robot violence, Chappie is just so cool to look at. But Blomkamp botched the formula here. You can’t just drop batshit insane entertainers into a rote movie and think “my work here is done!” Had it been more unhinged and odd or had it been dramatically less Die Antwoord-ly focused, Chappie could have been more than the haphazard hot mess it is. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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onflict is the heart of Westendfilms.com cinema. Conflict drives the plot and draws the audience and practically every movie revolves around it. Yet, only a select few have the audacity to dive into what fuels that conflict and, to borrow a line from The Rules of the Game, understand that “the awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons.” Every character in Bethlehem, Bethlehem mirrors the tense Israel-Palestine conflict in its relationships between characters. showing this week in the Boulder Jewish Film Festival, has their reasons, and that is what makes the credit. the Israel-Palestine conflict so tragic Bethlehem is directed by first-timer and confounding. Centered around the Yuval Adler, ex-Israeli army intelligence, tense relationship between an Israeli and co-written by Ali Waked, a Muslim Secret Service officer, Razi (Tsahi journalist, and their two voices bring an Halevi) and his young Palestinian infor- intentional unease to the movie. Adler mant, Sanfur (Shadi Mar’i), Bethlehem and Waked find strength by providing doesn’t ask why do Israel and Palestine both of their leads with equal weight, fight, but why do these men fight? proving that everybody has their reasons. The relationship The conflict between Razi and between Israel and Sanfur is one of conPalestine is complex, ON THE BILL: Bethlehem trol. Razi picked Sanfur and Adler and Waked 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, The Boedecker Theatre, 2590 not just because his don’t even attempt to Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440older brother is responunravel and streamline 7826. www.thedairy.org sible for murdering 30 it. Instead, they comIsraelis, but because plicate it further by Razi figures that Sanfur adding layers of deceit is set to be the next leader of the and confusion until the entire conflict is Palestinian Resistance. Sanfur is young, seen as the product of masculine posand his aspirations are much more scatturing and puffed chests. There may be ter-shot, continuing to run his own ancient reasons that started this conflict, but what continues to this day is a schemes — defiantly under Razi’s nose never-ending cycle of violence. — proving to himself and everyone Bethlehem, which will screen at The around him, that he is, and will be, the Boedecker Theater on Wednesday, alpha male. March 18, is just one of 22 equally chalRazi and Sanfur’s plight is further lenging and engaging movies that make complicated thanks to the setting of up the Boulder Jewish Film Festival. Bethlehem, a territory governed by the Palestinian Authority with sub-groups Personally curated by Kathryn like Hamas and Al-Asqua’s Martyrs Bernheimer (a fellow critic and author operating under their own agendas. This of The Fifty Greatest Jewish Movies), the disconnect is beautifully depicted in one Boulder Jewish Film Festival runs scene where soldiers from different facMarch 14 to 22 and features 22 Boulder tions fight over who gets to bury a felpremieres along with talkbacks, filmlow martyr. It is an aggravating scene to maker Q-and-A’s and special events. watch because everyone in the room is More information, show times and tickmissing the point that a man has died. ets can all be found at www.thedairy.org But look at Bethlehem in it’s entirety. and www.boulderjcc.org. Death isn’t the point at all. It’s who gets Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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cuisine review Susan France

e first covered Georgia boys BBQ when they opened in Longmont back in 2011. In two stories over two weeks, Boulder Weekly profiled the two unemployed friends who had recently moved in from Georgia, Matt Alexander and Nick Reckinger, and built a side project of slinging smoked meat in paper bags into one of the most popular barbecue joints in the state seemingly overnight. So I wasn’t going to Georgia boys to highlight the hidden gem. I was going because I got tired of hearing how good it was and, well, seeing is believing. The first thing you see is an abandoned warehouse across the street straight out of The Wire. Then you see an easy-going porch and a screen door. Then you see the hordes of people inside. There is evident care in how Georgia boys cultivated the appearance of their Longmont outpost. The long picnic tables, the single rocking chair, the open kitchen — it all creates something in the mind before you even taste the food. It recalls barbecue joints from Columbia, S.C., to Memphis, Tenn., to Glen Rose, Texas. It earnestly honors the tradition of barbecue establishments before it, and it almost realizes that romantic ideal of “down home cuisine” some of us have in our head from books

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meats, had the satisfying girth Georgia boys BBQ and richness of 237 Collyer St., well-cooked beef. Longmont, Sides were no 720-999-4099 slouch either. The cornbread was velvety and moist, cooked in a cast iron skillet and served in a pie slice. The cole slaw had bits of apples and a sweet dressing covering the cabbage. The mac and cheese was the least favorite. It was a little chunky and wanting for some punch. The baked beans were fantastic with bits of pork and a strong spice presence, giving the cup a magnetic quality. It’s also worth noting that prices are moderate, and the service was exceptionally friendly and surprisingly quick and organized given the density of customers during the lunch rush. With a second location already in Frederick, Georgia textured. It went with every sauce on boys is well off and running. So what if the table — traditional barbecue, black- this review was a shameful ploy to drive jack (black peppery), mop sauce (tangy), out to Longmont and indulge in barbeCarolina mustard and ghost sauce cue whose quality has already been well (spicy). No matter what else I picked at, documented by this paper and many the ends justified all other meats. others? Speaking of, the pulled pork was the Well, when your paper’s first review lightest meat on the table, took sauce four years ago claims it “may be the best well, and I’d be happy shooting down a barbecue on the Front Range,” that’s a sandwich with the pork slopped in claim you ought to check to see is true. sauce. The ribs were exceptionally tenAnd out of an abundance of safety, I’ll der inside with a thick black crust. And check back next week. the brisket, if not as tender as the other Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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and films past. The ideal, of course, is evident in the food. Georgia boys has a long list of meats and sides, which include daily specials. On this day, we indulged in burnt ends, St. Louis-style ribs, pulled pork and sliced beef brisket, but other options included turkey, chicken and sausage variations. The burnt ends won first prize. Culled from the ends of the brisket, the meat inside was juicy and tender, the burnt outer casing was flavorful and

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Frozen Dead Guy Days returns to Nederland this weekend. The event isn’t all coffins and fish tossing and human foosball, there’s also a lot of good food and drink for festivalgoers. Saturday and Sunday morning, the Nederland Community Center will be hosting pancake breakfasts. Eggs, sausage, juice, coffee and all you can eat pancakes will be served from 8-11 a.m. Price is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and $4 for kids. After breakfast, head out to the Brain Freezer Tent on First Street and sidle up to the St. Grampy’s Day bar. There, Epic Brewing, Grimm Brothers Brewhouse and Grossen Bart Brewery offerings will be on tap from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Or, head over to the ReAnimate Yourself beer tent where Oskar Blues brews will be served. Live music will be bumping at both. There’s also Grandpa’s Pub Crawl from 6:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday night — a free shuttle from Very Nice Brewery will be available. Sunday at 11 a.m. brings the salmon toss and brunch at the Sundance Cafe. And at 3 p.m., you can stuff your face with testicles at the Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating Contest at the First Street Pub & Grill. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.frozendeadguydays.com.

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Fest. About 300 people stopped by eTown Hall to eat, drink and watch oyster-based contests, of which one was an oyster eating competition wherein the winner downed 79 oysters in 90 seconds. Most noteworthy, however, is the $500,000 that were donated to local charity There With Care, which helps families with severely ill children. The donation was made possible by a matching anonymous $250,000 donation.

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OYSTER FEST AND THE BIG DONATION On Tuesday, March 10, Jax Fish House and Oyster Bar held the High West Oyster

I was heading out to The Porch Deli in Louisville a couple weeks ago to write a review. I went to that deli a lot when I worked in Louisville. Even though The Porch was on the main intersection in town, and the food was consistently great, it still seemed like it was a bit of a hidden gem in Boulder County. I suppose it was. Pulling up, I saw red “For Rent” signs in the window. Apparently it’s been closed for some time, but it was sad to see. The Porch served as sort of an East Coast embassy for me as I adjusted to life in Colorado after moving from New Jersey. Their sandwiches were the closest I could find to what I grew up with: fresh meat piled way too high, perfect hoagie rolls, fresh vegetables and careful assembly. It was all there needed to be. The staff was always friendly. The prices, just about right. It was a pleasant, bright building to eat lunch in. I once walked in and saw a Yankee spring training game on the YES Network beamed in from some satellite to the TV. That said a lot. Anyway, thanks for the sandwiches, The Porch. Consider this a posthumous review. Here’s to hoping you come back somewhere else someday soon. —Matt Cortina

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osea Rosenberg is a gypsy. Not one that moves from town to town hanging his shingle out for a season until moving on. No, his journey is a more personal one of selfreinvention where he is continually pushing his culinary boundaries in different directions. Some succeed, some fail, but the lessons learned stay with him. And it all is on display at his newest endeavor Blackbelly Market. When Rosenberg graduated from the University of Colorado in 1997 with a degree in engineering physics, he never imagined he would be headed for culinary greatness. “I wanted to be an astronomer,” Rosenberg says. But soon, his first move happened. “After working at a lab in NCAR I realized I was bored out of my mind. I missed the excitement of working in the kitchen — I had put myself through school working in one.” So he decided to follow a different path and dove into restaurants. Fast-forward several years and apprenticeships under such luminaries as Wolfgang Puck, Kevin Taylor, Sean Yontz and Dave Query, he found himself as the executive chef at Pearl Street mainstay Jax Fish House and Oyster

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Despite a winding road, Hosea Rosenberg (right) seems to always find success in the kitchen.

Bar. It was an achievement many would consider career-culminating — not Rosenberg. “I heard about a cooking competition called the Flatiron Chef that happened monthly at the Omni Interlocken and I thought I could win

that,” Rosenberg says. He did on his first try and then remained undefeated for seven straight months until he resigned his position as champ to move on to something bigger and better. In 2009 he became the fifth champion of Top Chef, a nationally tele-

vised cooking competition pitting him against some of the best up-and-coming chefs in the nation. His comfort food with a twist was a hit. He was a star. It was time to try something new. In 2010 he launched StrEat Chefs with several partners. The food truck offered high-quality eats normally found in sit down restaurants. It seemed destined for success, with plans to launch nationally. Unfortunately a variety of issues plagued the operation and they had to park it one year later. But it also birthed Rosenberg’s next act. “Once we closed we had several events booked so I decided to honor them and that just steamrolled into this awesome high-end, farm-to-table boutique catering company,” he says. Over the next three years, Rosenberg built up his catering business Blackbelly Catering, learning the ins and outs of the business as he went along. Ever the adventurer, he launched a farm, Blackbelly Farm, to ensure his ingredients were the best. “Damn hard work to run a farm, even one as small as ours, but the lessons learned are invaluable,” Rosenberg says. Over time, more and more booksee ROSENBERG Page 60

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ings arrived. As Rosenberg was looking for a spot to build a commissary kitchen to support his ever-expanding business, the idea of a restaurant was far from his mind. “I knew one day I wanted to have my own restaurant but that was in the future, the catering business had all of my focus,” Rosenberg says.

And then fate intervened again. As he looked over the large space he had decided upon for his new kitchen, he realized it could be so much more. He envisioned something revolutionary, something different that would call upon all his talents. Blackbelly Market is part restaurant, part bar, part market, part catering company and part butcher shop.

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PISCES FEB. 19-MARCH 20: In the fairy tale “The Ugly Duckling,” the young hero suffers from a peculiar case of mistaken identity. He believes that he is a duck. All of his problems stem from this erroneous idea. By duck standards, he is a homely mess. He gets taunted and abused by other animals, goes into exile, and endures terrible loneliness. In the end, though, his anguish dissolves when he finally realizes that he is in fact a swan. United with his true nature, he no longer compares himself to an inappropriate ideal. Fellow swans welcome him into their community, and he flies away with them. Is there anything in this story that resonates with you, Pisces? I’m guessing there is. It’s high time to free yourself from false notions about who you really are.

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CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22: As soon as a baby loggerhead turtle leaves its nest on a Florida beach, it heads for the ocean. It’s only two inches long. Although it can swim just one mile every two hours, it begins an 8,000-mile journey that takes ten years. It travels east to Africa, then turns around and circles back to where it originated. Along the way it grows big and strong as it eats a wide variety of food, from corals to sea cucumbers to squid. Succeeding at such an epic journey requires a stellar sense of direction and a prodigious will to thrive. I nominate the loggerhead turtle to be your power animal for the coming weeks, Cancerian. LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: In 1961, 19-year-old Bob Dylan began doing solo performances of folk songs at New York clubs. To accompany his vocals, he played an acoustic guitar and harmonica. By 1963, his career had skyrocketed. Critics called him a creative genius. Pop stars were recording the songs he wrote, making him rich. But he still kept his instrumentation simple, relying entirely on his acoustic guitar and harmonica. That changed in 1965, when he made the leap to rock’n’roll. For the first time, his music featured a full drum set and electric guitar, bass and keyboards. Some of his fans were offended. How dare he renounce his folk roots? I wonder if it might be time for you to consider a comparable transition, Leo. Are you willing to risk disorienting or disturbing those who would prefer you to stay as you are? VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “Whoever travels without a guide needs 200 years for a two-day journey.” That’s an old Sufi saying sometimes attributed to the poet Rumi. I don’t think it’s accurate in all cases. Sometimes we are drawn to wander into frontiers that few people have visited and none have mastered. There are no guides! On other occasions, we can’t get the fullness of our learning experience unless we are free to stumble and bumble all by ourselves. A knowledgeable helper would only interfere with that odd magic. But right now, Virgo, I believe the Sufi saying holds true for you. Where you’re headed, you would benefit from an advisor, teacher, or role model. LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: There’s a meme rolling around Tumblr and Facebook that goes like this: “Everyone wants a magical solution for their problems, but they refuse to believe in magic.” Judging from the astrological omens, I think this Internet folk wisdom applies to your current situation. As I see it, you have two choices. If you intend to keep fantasizing about finding a magical solution, you will have to work harder to believe in magic. But if you can’t finagle your brain into actually believing in magic, you should stop fantasizing about a magical solution. Which will it be? SCORPIO OCT. 23-NOV. 21: I have taken a passage from a letter that Henry Miller wrote to Anais Nin, and I have chopped it up and rearranged it and added to it so as to create an oracle that’s perfect for you right now. Ready? “This is the wild dream: you with your chameleon’s soul being anchored always in no matter what storm, sensing you are at home wherever you are. You asserting yourself, getting the rich varied life you desire; and the more you assert yourself, the more you love going deeper, thicker, fuller. Resurrection after resurrection: that’s your gift, your promise. The insatiable delight of constant change.” SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21: One of your important assignments in the coming week

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Dear Dan: When I was 15, I had a three-month-long sexual relationship with a 32-year-old woman. She was a friend of the family, and my parents were going through a divorce. I stayed with her for the summer, and she initiated a sexual relationship. Looking back, I can see that she had been grooming me. We used to have conversations online and via e-mail that were very inappropriate considering our age difference. The relationship ended when I went home, but she remained flirty. As a 15-year-old, I had a hard time sorting out my feelings for her, but we remained in contact. Now we speak sporadically, and it’s usually just small talk. Soon after, I met a girl my own age and we started dating. Twenty years later, we are happily married and have two wonderful children. Our sex life is active and fulfilling. The only problem is my wife is very proud of the fact that we were each other’s “first and only” sex partners. When we first slept together at 16, I couldn’t admit that she wasn’t my first, and I didn’t want to get the older woman in trouble. I don’t want to hurt my wife by revealing the truth. Can I keep this secret to myself? — This Revelation Undermines Total Harmony Dear TRUTH: Like you, TRUTH, I lost my virginity to an older woman at age 15. My first was closer to me in age (20s, not 30s) than your first — the woman who preyed on you — and I never felt like she took advantage of me. If anything, I was taking advantage of her, as our sexual relationship helped me sort out my shit. (I could get through sex with a girl, yes, but I had to think about guys the whole time. I resolved to cut out the middlewoman and have sex with guys instead.) Over the years, well-meaning people have tried to convince me that I was damaged by this experience, but I never felt that way. Based on your letter, TRUTH, it doesn’t sound like you were damaged or traumatized by this relationship. You quickly figured out that what she had done to/with you was squicky and inappropriate; the fact that she didn’t leave you damaged or traumatized doesn’t make what she did okay. But it sounds like your only issue — it’s the only issue you raise — is whether you can continue to allow your wife to think she was Boulder Weekly

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Buzzed bunnies: The last spurts of ‘Reefer Madness’

ike everyone else, the headlines were hard to miss. “DEA Warns of Stoned Rabbits if Utah Passes Medical Marijuana” was over a story in The Washington Post. A search for “cannabis bunnies Utah” yielded page after page of rewrites of that same tale with variant headlines about small mammals in THC ecstasy. Buzzed bunnies? Washington Post? WTF? I decided to access the actual testimony, which came from special DEA agent Matt Fairbanks on Feb. 26 before the Utah Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Standing Committee in room 250 of the state capitol in Salt Lake City. Fairbanks is one of five officers and health officials who testified that day against S.B. 259 Medical Cannabis Amendments, a bill introduced to modify provisions in a law passed last year that lets “certified” individuals suffering from intractable epileptic disorders use CBD oil to treat seizures. While the bill made it legal to possess CBD oil, the process of licensing was expensive and onerous. Since there was no provision to get CBD products in the state, people needed to go (where else?) to Colorado for the strain, known as “Charlotte’s Web,” and bring it across the state line, which was illegal, too. The new bill would change some of the original rules, including allowing

licensed growers/manufacturers to provide CBD oil for those individuals. Opposing the bill, special agent Fairbanks first produced a chart that indicated that usage among young adults is rising in states where medical marijuana has been allowed and cited medical associations that are on the record

against medical marijuana. He told the committee that he listened to the testimony of people who use medical marijuana and he understands their pain. “I deal in facts. I deal in science,” he said. “I want the science studied, looked at and specifically gone over.” So far, so good. At this point we find out that special agent Fairbanks is a “special” agent because he is a member of the marijuana

eradication unit, which he tells the committee has spent “millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours” to exterminate almost 100,000 illegal plants in Utah’s outdoor spaces in the last two years. OK. He said that illegal grow operations use pesticides and harmful chemicals and can cause erosion and deforestation. I can’t argue with that. “I spend time up on those mountains protecting our environment,” he said. But then he heads directly into the ditch. “The deforestation has left marijuana grows with rabbits that have developed a taste for the marijuana, where one of them refused to leave us. We took all the marijuana around him, but his natural instincts to run were somehow gone.” That’s it. This man of science told a state legislative committee that he witnessed a rabbit that wouldn’t leave an area when ordered by environmentalist DEA agents and concluded it was because the bunny was hitting the edibles a little too hard. “We don’t know how to protect our backcountry,” he said. What Fairbanks said is certainly fodder for idiotic news of the day, but the implications aren’t as funny. Those millions of dollars that Fairbanks and his merry band of DEA environmentalists spent to confiscate pot plants haven’t stopped Utah citizens from using cannabis, but it does give his squad a number (150,000 plants) to

pump up his pride and justify his efforts and expenditures. This is how the drug war and those who fight it feed upon themselves. Fairbanks or the other law officials never consider the obvious: that if marijuana were regulated, there wouldn’t be a need for the illegal grows on national forest lands. Or the even more obvious: that none of the pot being grown there has anything to do with medical patients. Those grows are for Utah citizens who use cannabis despite the restrictions, and it has been going on long before the Utah medical law was passed last year. We make light of this kind of reefer madness, and rightly so. But since the demonization of marijuana began after alcohol prohibition ended, society has deemed that alcohol, an extremely dangerous drug, is the only acceptable way to get “high.” That’s ridiculous, of course. People will always find ways to change their consciousness, and polls continue to indicate that more and more Americans don’t support the idea of millions of their tax dollars going to DEA agents who spend their time keeping the nation safe from nationalforest pot grows. In the end, cooler heads prevailed. The committee wasn’t notably persuaded by Fairbank’s arguments about outof-control fauna. The bill passed 4-2 and is waiting to be introduced on the Utah Senate floor. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/weed

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